ABSTRACT
This paper, unpublished for many years, offers an unabashed, unabated, full- throated defense of legal theory and abstract, factually deracinated legal scholarship. Several calumnies raised against such academic work – all beginning with the letter ‘a’ – are addressed and refuted. These are: (1) armchair-ism, (2) abstraction-ism, (3) ampersand-ism, (4) assertion-ism, (5)) affinity group – ism, and (6) aspirational expiation – ism.
Estreicher, Samuel, In Defense of Theory: Notes on the Production of Legal Scholarship (November 3, 2006). Green Bag 2d series, volume 10, page 49.
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