INTRODUCTION
For over a hundred years, American law has been characterized by an explicit reliance on fields of learning outside of law to examine and criticize governing legal rules, and thereby bring about reform in those rules. Rejecting the notion that law is an independent, self-contained system, this external examination of law – leveraging a perspective from outside law to offer a critique of legal rules – has and continues to bring about salutary changes in law. Such an approach to law is neither only American nor particularly new …
Guido Calabresi, The Promise and Peril of ‘Law And …’, Columbia Law Review volume 124 no 5 (2024).
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