Is there a Rule of Recognition in a world like this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/nyregion/11court.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

Jurisprudence Reading Club: First Note

I must concede that the Wissahickon Dead Poet Society of Penn Law is not a descriptively nor normatively accurate title for this club. We will not be traveling to the Wissahickon cave to read jurisprudence (http://www.ushistory.org/oddities/kelpius.htm) and we do not intend to read books by people that are exclusively dead. Finally in no way are we officially associated with Penn Law. Some of us just happen to be students there.