Another area in which logicians could profitably work is the Law. During the famous row between King James I and his Lord Chief Justice, Coke, the latter impudently claimed that natural reason was no good for understanding the Common Law of England, you need an artificial reason that you develop only by long study of the Law! As Hobbes would say, it is easy to see the Benefit which proceedeth from this Darkness and to whom it accrueth. Happily English judges nowadays are less given to such pronouncements. Unhappily, liaison between logicians and academic lawyers is practically non-existent. In desiring such contacts, I have Leibniz as one illustrious predecessor.
(P. T. Geach, "On Teaching Logic," Philosophy 54 [January 1979]: 5-17, at 9)
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 
