Some of today s top legal thinkers consider the ways that legal thinking has bolstered rather
than corrected injustice. Bringing together some of today s top legal thinkers this volume
reimagines law in the twenty-first century zeroing in on the most vibrant debates among legal
scholars today. Going beyond constitutional jurisprudence as conventionally understood
contributors show the ways in which legal thinking has bolstered rather than corrected
injustice. If conservative approaches have been well served by court-centered change
contributors to Rethinking Law consider how progressive ones might rely on movement-centered
legislative and institutional change. In other words they believe that the problems we face
today are vastly bigger than can be addressed by litigation. The courts still matter of course
but they should be less central to questions about social justice. Contributors describe how
constitutional law supported a system of economic inequality how we might rethink the First
Amendment in the age of the internet how deeply racial bias is embedded in our laws and what
kinds of changes are necessary. They ask which is more important: the laws or how they are
enforced? Rethinking Law considers these questions with an eye toward a legal system that truly
supports a just society. Contributors include Jedediah Purdy David Grewal Jamal Greene Reva
Siegel Jocelyn Simonson Aziz Rana
