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Scholars in the Arena: Some Thoughts on Better Bridge Building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2003

Patricia M. Wald
Patricia M. Wald
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(Patwald2@cs.com) was formerly a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She also served as chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and as assistant attorney general for legislative affairs. Wald received her LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1951
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In my twilight years, I often think about why law is more isolationistthan other disciplines, particularly other social sciences. Why, when, as Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo noted almost a century ago, “the great tides and currents which engulf the rest of man, do not turn aside in their course, and pass the judges by,”Cardozo 1921, 168. doesn't the law draw more avidly on the experience, knowledge, analysis, and pure thought that pour out from universities, think tanks, and what Judge Richard Posner, somewhat depreciatingly, calls “public intellectuals”?

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 355 - 362
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© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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