摘要：In 2005, the editors of Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left begantheir new legal journal with a call to arms. On a campus where political discussionseldom strays beyond genuflection to the twin gods of neo-liberalism and a virtuallysacred charter of 1787, editors sought to stake out a place for an explicitly Left politics,as distant from the pieties of liberalism as those of the Right. The journal was toprovide a home for Left-legal intellectual discussion and ‘a forum for a new set oftheories on the left’.1Some ten years have passed since the journal’s first issue and it seemsappropriate to reflect on how that project has taken shape and to take stock of thejournal’s strengths, as well as its failures and shortcomings. The latter is perhaps themore important task: self-criticism has long been a valuable tradition of the critical Left,albeit one that does not always come easily. This short essay, then, I hope will be takenin the spirit with which it is intended: not as denunciation or angry philippic, but rather,in the traditional spirit of polemics, as spur to lively debate.
