Can Law Be a Source of Insight for Other Academic Disciplines?

Law has been a borrower but not a supplier Law schools in effect have been located on oneway streets with ideas flowing in but nothing going out This essay is intended to begin a dialogue that could change the oneway streets between law schools and other university departments into twoway streets I want to demonstrate that legal and jurisprudential studies can be a source of ideas for scholars in other fields In particular this essay argues that the legal concept of the burden of proof can illuminate disputes between theorists of modernism and postmodernis