ABSTRACT

Much of what passes for legal scholarship these days continues to be, quite simply, boring. More important, however, than its distinct lack of aesthetic appeal, is its continuing irrelevance. Not only are esoteric debates about the niceties of the rules of frustration in contract, or about the technical meaning of some obscure wording in an even more obscure legal instrument, irrelevant because they are of interest only to a small minority of lawyers and judges, who constitute an even smaller minority of the populace, but they are irrelevant at a more fundamental level. People, I believe, learn more about law through the mediating effects of popular culture than they ever will through the dull and long ponderings of judges or legal academics on the arcana of taxation or contract law.