Contributors

FRANÇOIS EWALD is a research associate at the Centre national de recherche scientifique in Paris. He has participated in the French government as part of the Ministry of Humanitarian Action, and recently published L'Etat providence (1986) as well as a collection of excerpts from the French civil code.

CARLA HESSE is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1810 is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

JENNIFER NEDELSKY is Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism: The Madisonian Framework and Its Consequences .

ROBERT POST teaches constitutional law at the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley. He writes on the legal regulation of communication, and he is presently working on a history of the United States Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930.

KIM LANE SCHEPPELE teaches political science, law, and public policy at the University of Michigan. Legal Secrets: Equality and Efficiency in the Common Law was published in 1988 by the University of Chicago Press. The present essay is part of a book-length work, Nothing But the Truth , forthcoming.

MARTIN STONE is Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University and a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Harvard University.

JOSEPH VINING is Hutchins Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and author most recently of The Authoritative and the Authoritarian (Chicago, 1988). His current work is on legal conceptions of mind.