Regarding the most-influential-legal-thinker poll that Fiona describes below, the devious among us might wonder whether Brian made his entered-profession-by-1960s cutoff with the devilish purpose of generating feminist buzz.On reading it last night I myself set to pounce -- to e-mail Brian to find out how Catharine A. Mackinnon (right), to name one unquestionably influential 20th C. legal thinker -- had been omitted. Alas, I learned from WikiPedia
that though she's but a few years younger than nominee Bruce Ackerman, she seems not to have earned her J.D. till well after him. No surprise; later entry into one's profession is a hallmark of women's progess.Even considered within its own time frame, the poll is sadly Anglo-Amero-centric. In a comment to Fiona's post Hannah Arendt (left) was rightly nominated by our colleague Kevin Jon Heller. In global circles the name of my
colleague Mireille Delmas-Marty (below) surely would surface. I know others will have other names.There are so many women and men who've influenced our legal thinking. Do we really need one man's list to tell us who they are?
