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Book Review


Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations. By Laura Kalman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xvi, 467 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2966-8.)
The legal historian Laura Kalman's Yale Law School and the Sixties is an impressive follow-up to her earlier account of legal realism at New Haven. It is best in its thorough consideration of the ideological struggles that pitted legal realism, legal liberalism, and the legal process school against a host of challenges, mostly from the left but also the right. Kalman was particularly skilled in weaving together those methodological and philosophical battles with the careers of the relevant legal theorists, including Alexander Bickel, Ronald Dworkin, Duncan Kennedy, and Guido Calabresi. In addition, her book provides a road map of dilemmas faced by Yale Law School deans, from Eugene Rostow and Louis Pollack through Calabresi, especially under the leadership of President Kingman Brewster Jr. . . .
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