Legal canons / edited by J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balkin, J. M.

Levinson, Sanford, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching--United States.

Law.

Law--United States--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every discipline has its canon: the set of standard texts, approaches, examples, and stories by which it is recognized and which its members repeatedly invoke and employ. Although the last twenty-five years have seen the influence of interdisciplinary approaches to legal studies expand, there has been little recent consideration of what is and what ought to be canonical in the study of law today. Legal Canons brings together fifteen essays which seek to map out the legal canon and the way in which law is taught today. In order to understand how the twin ideas of canons and canonicity operate in law, each essay focuses on a particular aspect, from contracts and constitutional law to questions of race and gender. The ascendance of law and economics, feminism, critical race theory, and gay legal studies, as well as the increasing influence of both rational-actor methodology and postmodernism, are all scrutinized by the leading scholars in the field. A timely and comprehensive volume, Legal Canons articulates the need for, and means to, opening the debate on canonicity in legal studies. Table of Contents

Contents:

Legal canons : an introduction / J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson

Empire or residue : competing visions of the contractual canon / Ian Ayres

Canons of property talk, or, Blackstone's anxiety / Carol M. Rose

Vanished from the first year : lost torts and deep structures in tort law / Martha Chamallas

Criminal law / Robert Weisberg

Teaching American civil procedure since 1779 / Paul D. Carrington

Of Coase and the canon : reflections on law and economics / Daniel A. Farber

Race relations law in the canon of legal academia / Randall Kennedy

Recognizing race in the American legal canon / Fran Ansley

Feminist canon / Katharine T. Bartlett

Homosexuals, torts, and dangerous things / Katherine M. Franke

The constitutional canon / Philip Bobbitt

The canon in constitutional law / Suzanna Sherry

Constitutional canons and constitutional thought / J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780814709030

0814709036

9780585424859

0585424853

OCLC:

782877906