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Continuing the vision of our University’s founders,
The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable is a journal of
interdisciplinary studies devoted to works from both legal and non-legal
scholars. The Roundtable’s goal is to create a legal journal broad
enough to provide a forum for a wide range of topics, yet unique enough to
stand out among the sea of law journals already in existence. Our name reflects a proud tradition. For
several decades, "The University of Chicago Roundtable" was a
nationally broadcast radio program that engaged the energies and intellects
of a broad range of extraordinary scholars from throughout the University of
Chicago. These scholars included Enrico Fermi, Saul Bellow, Robert Maynard Hutchins,
Mortimer Adler, Edward Levi and Milton Friedman, among others. From the late-1970s into the 1990s, this
tradition evolved into "The University of Chicago Law School
Roundtable," a faculty discussion series that met three times a week
over lunch at the Law School. Of course, the Law School has traditionally
been a leader in the application of other disciplines to the study of law:
from Ronald Coase’s use of economic theory to demonstrate the problem of
social costs to Harry Kalven and Hans Zeisel’s application of sociological
principles to their study of the American jury, the Law School has
contributed some of the most important illustrations of interdisciplinary
legal study. The discussion series involved just about every subject directly
or indirectly related to the culture of law and routinely included the likes
of Richard Epstein, Cass Sunstein, David Currie, Stephen Schulhofer, Richard
Posner, Mary Becker and Frank Easterbook – all trying to make sense of one
another. Given this rich tradition, the University
of Chicago Law School Roundtable was inaugurated as a student-run journal
in 1993 as a way not only to institutionalize the principles of
inter-disciplinary examination of the law, but also as a means to further
student involvement in this important endeavor. The Roundtable hosts
several symposia during the year, devoted to examining unique challenges,
principles, and controversies as they are in legal culture. Transcripts from
these symposia, as well as articles and comments, appear in hard-text in
various editions of the Roundtable (ISSN 1075-9166). To this day, the Roundtable
continues to thrive. We hope that this website gives you a better idea of the
rich history and scholarship imbued in our tradition. We welcome unsolicited
manuscripts (text and footnotes conform to The Chicago Manual of Style and
The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation), as well as any ideas or
suggestions for furthering our mission. Please direct all inquiries (including
those regarding procedures, articles, comments, and submissions) to Rachel Bennett, Executive Editor. updated
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