September 15, 2000

Popular Culture and the Law

To the Editor:

In his essay "Loosen Up, Professor! Pop Culture Is Good for Your Scholarship" (Opinion, July 28), Carlin Romano seriously mistakes my position regarding popular culture. He attributes to me the belief that "exposure to popular culture ... inevitably weakens and diminishes a discipline." I hold no such view. The only inevitability I would concede is that law and popular culture are co-dependent: Each interpenetrates the other.

This is not a new phenomenon, as the

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