I return to the work to recall how insistence keeps us alive, realizes the power of the seemingly powerless, gums up tyranny's gears, and affirms that freedom from domination is achievable. May this work and your own help us to insist on the reality of law and the requirement of liberation.

And so I keep returning to ideas in my own recent work, Indigenizing Legal Republicanism (forthcoming Yale J.L. & Human.), for renewed sense as I venture into tort theory that law has meaning. It is not, and must not be, an empty enterprise, unmade by mere say-so. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

. . . to gesture at old documents or new, to recite profound axioms or mundane, to evidence injuries great or small, and to insist on their bases that justice be done, democracy achieved. Scholarship too is insistence, our past selves advising our present ones, "This is what we now know."

Very grateful to Lewis & Clark Law Review for all of their painstaking, thoughtful work on this. And for helping to make legal scholarship possible!