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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack M. Balkin (Editor), Sanford V. Levinson (Editor)Publish date:2000-08-01Pages:444
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9780814798577ISBN-10:814798578UPC:9780814798577Book Category:LawBook Subcategory:Legal History, GovernmentSize:9.23 x 6.45 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.6711Product ID:SC9H7KX06K

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.
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Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9780814798577ISBN-10:814798578UPC:9780814798577Book Category:LawBook Subcategory:Legal History, GovernmentSize:9.23 x 6.45 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.6711Product ID:SC9H7KX06K
Balkin, Jack: - Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, and the Founder and Director of Yale's Information Society Project. He is the author of numerous books and the editor of What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (NYU Press, 2002). He lives in New Haven, CT.Levinson, Sanford V.: - Sanford V. Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance and Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It).
Publisher: New York University Press

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Jack M. Balkin (Editor), Sanford V. Levinson (Editor)

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