WHY BEING JAMES WILSON IS A COMPLIMENT

If you're coming here from OxBlog and you're interested in why I like James Wilson, you can read a section of my dissertation in draft form (157KB PDF); this is also a draft section of my article “Modes of Early Civic Legal Education in the U.S. ,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 24: 3-35. The actual section on Wilson is only a few pages long; I pasted in the full references for the chapter as a whole, and this takes up 11 of the 22 pages. My basic argument is that Wilson's Lectures on Law present an attractive understanding of democratic civic legal education.