Table of Contents:
  • Legal science, social science, and professional identity
  • Empirical legal research at Yale: Charles E. Clark and William O. Douglas
  • Empirical legal research at Yale: the singular case of Underhill Moore
  • Empirical legal research at Johns Hopkins: Walter Wheeler Cook and his friends
  • Empirical legal research since World War II: the reinvention of the square wheel
  • Afterword: on the history of intellectuals, including lawyers.