Volume 6 Number 1

Contributors' Notes - vii
Articles
G. Edward White
Reflections on the "Republican Revival": Interdisciplinary Scholarship in the Legal Academy - 1
Robert A. Ferguson
Story and Transcription in the Trial of John Brown - 37
Symposium
Interpretation in the University/
Interpretation of the University
Peter Brooks
Introduction - 75
Umberto Eco
The University and the Mass Media - 81
I. Old Universities, New Interpretations
Franco Ferrari
International Business, Law Merchant, and Law School Curricula - 95
Vita Fortunati
Multicultural Education and the Challenge of Ethnic Studies and Feminism: An Italian Perspective - 99
Geoffrey H. Hartman
Tasking the American University: The 1990s - 105
Giuseppe F. Mazzotta
Vico and the University - 111
II. The Quarrel of Order and Adventure
David Bromwich
Against Culturalism - 115
Giovanna Franci
A Defense of Theory: Interpretation as an Adventure on the Border Line - 119
Paul H. Fry
Matters of Interpretation - 125
Paolo Valesio
On Witnessing - 131
Book Reviews
Robert W. Gordon
The Elusive Transformation - 137
A Review of Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy
Thomas J. Sugrue
The Impoverished Politics of Poverty - 163
A Review of Christopher Jencks's Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass and Lawrence M. Mead's The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America
Carl Landauer
The Debut of the Palais de Justice: Official Architecture and Its Representations - 181
A Review of Katherine Fischer Taylor's In the Theater of Criminal Justice: The Palais de Justice in Second Empire Paris