and Willard Hurst.He discusses his work at SLS, his concept of legal culture, and its impact.His publication list is impressive having written some thirty books, and he talks about of his most significant publications, including A History of American Law, Total Justice, The Republic of Choice, and The Horizontal Society, as well as his recent interest in family law. He finishes by reflecting on globalization and comparative law, and sharing some advice for young legal historians starting out on their careers. I would say yes. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary work, and hopefully work in the law and society tradition. We don’t always get it, but we definitely choose people to take part in the forum who are not just doing formalistic doctrinal work. And I have always been very interested and active in the law and society movement, so I do whatever I can to encourage it among younger scholars. I think it was a little later than that. I think that it really got started after World War II. And it began with a small group of sociologists, who gathered at sociology meetings and talked about their interest in law, and it gradually spread from there. The early meetings in the fifties were very small, and ever since then have been larger and larger. And I have been active, not from the very beginning but after a few years. I became a member, and I continue to be interested in the movement.2 part ii • legal cultures • kjell å modéer 2 At Madison, Willard Hurst and the dean Lloyd Garrison arranged a class on law and society in 1938. 104 Didn’t the law and society movement actually start just before World War II, so when you began law school at Chicago, law and society was already an expanding discipline?2 Thank you, Lawrence, for finding the time for this interview. We have just concluded a two-day seminar at the International Junior Faculty Forum here at Stanford Law School, an event you started some ten years ago. It’s become very prestigious, attracting brilliant young scholars from all over the world; scholars who want to work in an interdisciplinary way and put legal problems into a social context. Doesn’t this event stem from your interest in law and society?
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