Robin L. West teaches law and humanities at Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author, most recently, of Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction (2011) and Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender (2007), and co-editor of Jurisprudence Cases and Materials, (2006 with Brian Bix, Stephen Gottlieb and Timothy Lytton). She writes broadly on jurisprudence, law and humanities, legal feminism and constitutional theory. She was one of the founders of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities and is an elected Member-at-Large of the Association for Political and Legal Philosophy. She has published more than 120 articles on law and humanities, constitutional law and theory, and jurisprudence, most recently in The Yale Law Journal, NOMOS, Harvard Law Review Online, Jurist, and Pennsylvania Law Review Online.

• 1. The unbearable lightness of justice; 2. Politics and its discontents; 3. The bifurcated academy: the practice vs. the study of law; 4. Confronting our existential challenge.

'Teaching Law: Justice, Politics, and the Demands of Professionalism is a significant contribution to the current discussion, and it belongs in the collections of academic law libraries … This book is a plea that law school administrators and faculty 'not let this current moment of crisis go to waste'. That plea deserves a hearing and a spirited response.' David W. Bachman, Law Library Journal