Idols of the Right: The Law-and-Economics Movement

For the past two decades conservative legal theorists have propagated two right-wing approaches to law. Most public attention has focused on the theory of “original intent” as a guide to interpreting the Constitution. In the law schools, though, the theory of “Law-and-Economics” has had far greater impact. The law journals are filled with law-and-economics articles, and no law school believes itself respectable until it has at least one advocate of law-and-economics on...