The law school does not exist to service the needs of the legal professions or anyone else.. .utility does not validate research in the university law school nor does the degree of utility increase the importance of research. Ideas are important but there is no ranking in their importance. Ifmy research pleases me, or at least does not entirely displease me, and if I attempt to live by the rules of scholarship, it needs no further warrant.2
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