The legal academy is as politicized as any liberal-arts discipline, if not more so. Many law professors (such as Brian Leiter) view law as politics. They are result-oriented. They view law as a means to the end of social change, not as an autonomous institution. Given this background, it’s heartening to see that not all law professors are progressives. Some of them—gasp!—have respect for law as law. Imagine: a law professor who doesn’t try to reduce law to something else. See here for John Yoo’s op-ed column.