Special Interdisciplinary Issue
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1981
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14
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Implicit in this statement made by a fictitious archetypal law professor to his first year class is, among others, the idea that legal thought is somehow different from or superior to the thought generated by other disciplines. Given the modern philosophical rejection of such an epistemological dualism even as between science and the humanities, it is difficult to perceive how such a dichotomy could seriously be contended for today between legal and non-legal thought. The spirit of this Special Issue is embedded in the related beliefs that no discipline has access to any quantitatively superior knowledge and that legal scholarship is inherently dependent upon scholarship in other disciplines. Given the view that the purpose of law is to benefit society, legal scholarship must be concerned with the broad interdisciplinary inquiries underlying the very existence of law in order to assure that the purpose of law to serve society is being fulfilled...
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14 Creighton L. Rev. [xvii] (1980-1981)
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Creighton University School of Law