1. We would like to express our appreciation to Jack Heinz (American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University Law School), for his help in initiating, planning and soliciting parts of this “Trenches and Towers” exchange.Google Scholar

2. Although Zeppos seems to attribute much of this shift to law-and-economics scholarship, his own text is rife with citations to scholarship from the law-and-society tradition, which has shed much light on the “interestedness” of parts of the legal process and profession. And one would be remiss to neglect the impact of critical scholarship from the legal academy and social theory, which has done much to cast doubt on the “disinterested” or genuinely representative character of many aspects of the U.S. legal system.Google Scholar