Furthermore, at least in the area of private law, it seems to me that some of the very best work — such as that of Coleman or Jody Kraus — rather explicitly seeks to engage economic theories of law. Furthermore, the days when the philosophical analysis of law and economics consisted of jeremiads against Jeremey Bentham recylced by inserting Richard Posner’s name in place of Benthams are blessedly passed. In other words, it seems to me that analytic philosophers of law are engaging “social philosophy,” they simply aren’t engaging the rather fuzzy and dense form of social philosophy represented by Habermas and other continental social theorists.