This article surveys Tony Weir's case notes and book reviews for the Cambridge Law Journal between 1963 and 2002 in order to illuminate Tony's unique genius as a legal academic and thinker. Reading Tony's case notes and book reviews reveals that he cannot be characterised as either a “lumper” (someone who seeks to reduce the law down to a few elemental ideas and concepts) or as a “splitter” (someone who resists such a reduction). Instead, Tony's genius lay in his possessing the Keatsian quality of “negative capability”. This quality allowed Tony to be both a lumper and a splitter at the same time, refusing to identify himself definitively with either way of thinking about the law.

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混沌与宇宙之间：剑桥法律杂志中的托尼·威尔

本文调查了托尼·威尔在 1963 年至 2002 年间为《剑桥法律杂志》撰写的案例笔记和书评，以阐明托尼作为法律学者和思想家的独特天才。阅读托尼的案例笔记和书评表明，他不能被描述为“笨蛋”（试图将法律简化为一些基本思想和概念的人）或“分裂者”（抵制这种减少的人） . 相反，托尼的天才在于他拥有济慈的“消极能力”品质。这种品质让托尼既是一个混蛋，又是一个分裂者，拒绝明确地认同自己对法律的任何一种思考方式。