One part of the long-term agenda of conservatives perhaps the only effective part has been to reduce the influence of liberal judges on the evolution of the law.
Nonetheless, Mr. Harper charges that academics like me, who are obsessed with high theory, cause "institutional inertia" in law schools and prevent the sort of evolution necessary to gear students up for the 21st-century legal market.
"Although the payroll-tax industry has evolved in the more than 60 years that have passed since employment taxes were enacted, the law has not kept up with this evolution, " Ms. Olson said in her agency's annual report to Congress in January.