This panel will focus on questions of academic rigor and intellectual orthodoxy in modern American law schools. What is the role of academic rigor in legal scholarship and education? To what extent can it coexist with an intellectual orthodoxy? Is there an intellectual orthodoxy in American law schools? When does an orthodoxy reflect accumulated wisdom, and when does it reflect unexamined assumptions? Does it matter if the orthodoxy has a political valence?
Featuring:

William Baude, University of Chicago Law School
Erwin Chemerinsky, Berkeley Law School
Joshua Kleinfeld, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Moderator: Thomas Lee, Fordham University School of Law