Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
In a tribute like this, the question arises unavoidably: is Carol a fox or a hedgehog? That is, following Isaiah Berlin’s iconic distinction, does she know many things, like the fox, or, like the hedgehog, does she know one big thing?
It may seem strange that the ecosystem of legal scholarship should contain so little biodiversity; but the question engaged me. I started out thinking that Carol must be a fox, but I may have thought so for the wrong reasons: reasons of style, basically, having to do with her light-footedness, her deftness, and the recurrent sense that, just when you thought you had caught her, your trap closes on air and you see a tuft of frizzy hair disappearing into the trees.
Disciplines
Law | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Jedediah S. Purdy,
A Foxy Hedgehog: The Consistent Perceptions of Carol Rose,
19
Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J.
1033
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3338