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10 Law, Culture & Human. 5 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/lculh10 and id is 1 raw text is: Law, Culture and the Humanities 2014, Vol 10(1) 5 Editorial @ The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.ul/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1743872113486852 Ich.sagepub.com OSAGE Recently I had the good fortune to attend a conference on Law and the Humanities, hosted by Peter Brooks at Princeton. Peter gathered a wonderful group of colleagues for a day of conversation about the present and future of law and humanities teaching. Much of that conversation focused on the crisis in American legal education and what it por- tends for the situation of humanities education in law schools. But, there was also widespread recognition that those who teach law and humanities in the legal academy have a large stake in the health of the humanities. The conference culminated in an engaging conversation about a vision of law as a humanities discipline and whether such a vision could be sustained at a distance from legal practice. Whether we teach inside or outside law schools in the United States or elsewhere, these do not seem to be the best times for either law professors or humanists. Yet there are moments when the clouds seem to part and one is reminded of the value and impor- tance of the work we do. I witnessed one such moment at the 2013 Northeast Law and Society Meeting where Linda Ross Meyer delivered the plenary address. Her words were galvanizing and inspiring and in the belief that our readers would enjoy reading them, I prevailed on Linda to allow her speech to be published in LCH. I hope Linda's words lift you, at least temporarily, from any form of institutional pessimism with which you may happen to be afflicted. Austin Sarat Amherst College

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