Western history of thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought. Yet
people often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use …

Abstract “Fiduciary political theory” is a burgeoning intellectual project that uses fiduciary
principles to analyze public law. This Essay provides a framework for assessing the …

Power and knowledge are intimately tied in Foucault's concept of power-knowledge (le
savoir-pouvoir). Yet people also try to gain and maintain power by engaging in deliberate …

Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and
legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information. The history of …

Now is a critical time to consider the role that lawyers-and the law schools that produce them-
can play in movements for social transformation. Over the past half-century, public interest …

This is a book about the legal fiction that sometimes we know what we don't. The willful
ignorance doctrine says defendants who bury their heads in the sand rather than learn …

No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession,
yet it has done little to prepare them for this role. Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of …

At present, several versions of a bill to reform the mens rea requirements under federal
criminal law are working their way through the House and Senate. I Recognizing that many …

State ethics codes based on the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct address lawyers'
work in advocacy but do not target lawyers' work in particular areas of advocacy or in other …

This Article revives and defends a largely discredited history of professionalism. It argues
that the rhetoric of the professions at the turn of the twentieth century provided immigrants …