Beyond Realism: <i>Introduzione Elementare Alla Scienza Giuridica: II. Cardozo Lectures in Law by George P. Fletcher</i>

The second annual Cardozo Lectures in Law represents an important milestone in the process of the development of a transnational legal culture, for at least two reasons. First, it represents the successful consolidation of an initiative, spawned by Ugo Mattei and Pier G. Monateri, that allows the civil law circuit of ideas to profit from a much-missed source of stimulation. In presenting and assigning to leading jurists of each legal discipline reflections such as those on the anthropology and ethnology of law, on relations between politics and law, and this year's Critique of Adjudication, the editors of the Cardozo Lectures have allowed a series of naturally broad topics to escape from the ghetto of technical treatment and acquire a sober and direct form of scientific conversation.