Northwestern Colloquy Surrebuttal: Hopeless Goo Goos Make Nice

We have been linking to the ongoing debate between Professors Lininger and Bagenstos over at the Northwestern University Law Review’s Colloquy.  For the final installment, Professor Lininger avoids ad hominem after being called a hopeless goo goo, but invokes Voltaire on the theme: “Le mieux est ennemi du bien.”  Voltaire, La Begueule, in 3 Recueil des Meilleurs Contes en vers 77, 77 (1778).  I did not know that Voltaire was the source of that epigram, and the response is worth a read for that alone, apart from the last word on the mandatory pro bono issue.

[Jeff Lipshaw]