Law professors and political scientists

[Thomas C. Berg]

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 08:09:06 EDT Mark Graber
<mgraber at BSS2.UMD.EDU> wrote:

> May I suggest one measure of comparing how well law professors
> respect political scientists.  Let us assume that university press
> quality is constant without the work is written by a law professor or
> a political scientist.  Yet, while political scientists frequently
> cite books written by law professors, law professors almost never
> cite constitutional theory works written by political scientists.

Is this really true?  I can certainly think of
counterexamples; for example, in the heyday of
"republicanism" in constitutional theory, there must be
have been dozens of references a year in law reviews to
J.A. Pocock's The Machiavellian Moment, Gordon Wood's The
Creation of the American Republic, and Michael Sandel's
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (admittedly two
historians of political thought, and only one political
theorist, but is Mark's claim limited to citing of
political scientists?).

Tom Berg
Cumberland Law School, Samford University


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Thomas C. Berg, Cumberland Law School
Samford University
Email: tcberg at samford.edu