Year: 1988
Type: article
Abstract: “L'exactitude ce n'est pas la vérité.” Henri Matisse, quoted in Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone 334 (New York, 1985) “[A] legal system ... accommodates the equally exigent demands of being and meaning ... in a universe in which what a thing does is only one of the things that it means, but everything that it means is something else that it does.” Arthur Leff, “Law and ...,” 87 Yale Law Journal 989 (1978) Lawrence Friedman is a rare and remarkable phenomenon. He is a counter who thinks and a thinker who counts. He is aware of paradoxes such as the fact that “Everybody is an individual; everybody is also a conformist” (1985b: 102). More specifically, Friedman is particularly knowledgeable about the limitations and unpredictable consequences of efforts at legal reform. Yet, surprisingly, he seems somehow to be able to escape transforming his healthy skepticism into cynicism.
Source: Law & Society Review
DOI: 10.2307/3053649
Author: Aviam Soifer
Institution: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Language: English
Topic: Law in Society and Culture
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2011619334