Start with Robert Hale and Morris Cohen and move to the present with this excellent piece... http://www.law.indiana.edu/glsj/vol6/no1/aoki.html if you have problems with the link let me know.
Great texts include [all pretty recent]:
Barbara Fried's "The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire" Morton Horwitz' "The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960 David Kairys, ed. "The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique" 3rd Edition anything you can find by Duncan Kennedy, David Kennedy, Lucy Williams and Karl Klare
Have fun,
ian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 8:14 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: buying professors
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> Michael Perelman wrote:
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> >Shouldn't your heading have been buying judges?
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> Ooops. Yes, you're right.
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> Is there any countervailing left "law & economics" analysis?
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> Doug
>