Richard Posner’s new book argues that judges and legal academics are speaking past each other, to the extent they are speaking at all.  Judges often denigrate academic work as irrelevant and obscure, while academics criticize judges for being insufficiently theoretical and rigorous.  Divergent Paths takes on the causes and consequences of the growing gap between these two crucial branches of the legal profession. It also suggests productive directions to overcome the gap. This symposium will present a conversation among several critical readers of the book, including judges and academics, and a response by Judge Posner.