Event Title
Getting from Here to There
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
1-3-1991 2:15 PM
End Date
1-3-1991 3:00 PM
Description
Milton's genius in Paradise Lost was in urging us to reconceptualize what had traditionally been understood as a tragic fall from grace, and to view it instead as a challenge needful to, and worthy of, the human spirit. The genius of the scholars of the "new public law" is that they urge upon us a similar conceptual shift. At a time when much of administrative law, as traditionally understood, threatens to become at best irrelevant and misguided, and perhaps affirmatively harmful, they invite us to rethink the nature of the enterprise as well as our ability to contribute to it. They tantalize us with a vision in which law, lawyers, and legal scholars can play a central role in defining and achieving what we as a society want to be. Like Milton's protagonists, we find the world all before us, and we are at once exhilarated and afraid.
Related Paper
Cynthia R. Farina, Getting from Here to There, 1991 Duke Law Journal 689-710 (1991)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol40/iss3/5Getting from Here to There
Duke Law School
Milton's genius in Paradise Lost was in urging us to reconceptualize what had traditionally been understood as a tragic fall from grace, and to view it instead as a challenge needful to, and worthy of, the human spirit. The genius of the scholars of the "new public law" is that they urge upon us a similar conceptual shift. At a time when much of administrative law, as traditionally understood, threatens to become at best irrelevant and misguided, and perhaps affirmatively harmful, they invite us to rethink the nature of the enterprise as well as our ability to contribute to it. They tantalize us with a vision in which law, lawyers, and legal scholars can play a central role in defining and achieving what we as a society want to be. Like Milton's protagonists, we find the world all before us, and we are at once exhilarated and afraid.
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