July 28, 2000

Loosen Up, Professor! Pop Culture Is Good for Your Scholarship

By CARLIN ROMANO

Listen hard and you can almost hear the voice of Judge Gravitas bringing his gavel down between the lines, warning, "One more pop-culture outburst and I'll clear the courtroom!"

Forgive Richard K. Sherwin, a professor of law at New York Law School -- he's morose. In his just-published When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture (University of Chicago Press), he laments, regrets, contemns, and bemoans the "generalized erosion of law's

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