Working Themselves Impure: A Life Cycle Theory of Legal Theories

Working Themselves Impure: A Life Cycle Theory of Legal Theories

Prescriptive legal theories have a tendency to cannibalize themselves. As they develop into schools of thought, they become not only increasingly complicated but also increasingly compromised, by their own normative lights. Maturation breeds adulteration. The theories work themselves impure. This Ar...

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Veröffentlicht in:The University of Chicago Law Review. - The University of Chicago Law School. - 83(2016), 4, Seite 1819-1892
1. Verfasser: Kessler, Jeremy K. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pozen, David E.
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The University of Chicago Law Review
Schlagworte:Law Political science Philosophy Education
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520 |a Prescriptive legal theories have a tendency to cannibalize themselves. As they develop into schools of thought, they become not only increasingly complicated but also increasingly compromised, by their own normative lights. Maturation breeds adulteration. The theories work themselves impure. This Article identifies and diagnoses this evolutionary phenomenon. We develop a stylized model to explain the life cycle of certain particularly influential legal theories. We illustrate this life cycle through case studies of originalism, textualism, popular constitutionalism, and cost-benefit analysis, as well as a comparison with leading accounts of organizational and theoretical change in politics and science. And we argue that an appreciation of the life cycle counsels a reorientation of legal advocacy and critique. The most significant threats posed by a new legal theory do not come from its neglect of significant first-order values—the usual focus of criticism—for those values are apt to be incorporated into the theory. Rather, the deeper threats lie in the second-and third-order social, political, and ideological effects that the adulterated theory's persistence may foster down the line. 
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