Preface to the Project

Abstract

I am delighted that our young law school is the home of a great new journal, Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature. The journal marks the law school's commitment to scholarship, particularly scholarship in the area of law and humanities. It is also a tribute to the memory of Benjamin N. Cardozo, after whom the law school is named. Cardozo understood, better than did any other Justice, the compelling relationship between law and literature. He wrote persuasively about law as literature; and in his practice as a judge, he drew upon his understanding to craft opinions which could gracefully shape doctrine anew.