BACK WHEN I WAS IN LAW SCHOOL, my classmate Jacob Corre and I once talked about all the various strands of legal scholarship -- legal realism, legal process, law and society, law and literature, critical legal studies, etc. -- and concluded that the Next Big Thing would be a school of thought called "legal legalism," in which the question to be addressed would be "what's the law on that, anyway?"
Back then -- when Roberto Unger was calling on God to speak, but instead we got Duncan Kennedy -- this seemed remote enough to be funny. But I think it's not too far from what Larry Solum is getting at in his posts on neoformalism.
