The Jurisprudence of Trousered Apes

Gregory E. Louis publishes “The Jurisprudence of Trousered Apes” in UCLA Law Review, where he uses scholarly debate about the U.S. Supreme Court’s September 2021 decision on the Centers for Disease Control’s pandemic eviction ban to argue that legal elites’ view of the law is useless as it fails to capture the law’s social reality, and that first-generation lawyers like himself and those he teaches uniquely contribute to legal analysis, capturing the law as experienced by those oppressed by it rather than contemplated by elites enveloped in what he calls its “tutelary cocoon.”