What lessons should we draw from the fact that so many of our routine ways of building legal culture (e.g. powerful appellate courts; law schools as separate parts of universities) were created when formalism was the dominant paradigm for understanding how law works? Have we fully tackled how these institutions could best function now that legal realism and its heirs (Crticical Legal Studies; Law and Economics;) have won the day? Professor Marin Roger Scordato at Catholic University says we have not, and in his ambitious, noteworthy After the Realist Revolution he takes up the challenge. Check it out.