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Modern Republicanism--Or The Flight From Substance, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1988

Modern Republicanism--Or The Flight From Substance, Richard A. Epstein

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Storytelling For Oppositionists And Others: A Plea For Narrative Legal Storytelling, Richard Delgado Jan 1988

Storytelling For Oppositionists And Others: A Plea For Narrative Legal Storytelling, Richard Delgado

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Law And Literature: 'No Manifesto', James Boyd White Jan 1988

Law And Literature: 'No Manifesto', James Boyd White

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With what hopes and expectations should a lawyer turn to the reading of imaginative literature? To books and articles that purport to connect that literature in some way with the law? In particular, is "law and literature" -to which this Symposium is directed-to be thought of as an academic "field" like law and psychiatry, say, or law and economics? If so, what can it purport to teach us? If not, how is it to be thought of?


The Decline Of Law As An Autonomous Discipline: 1962-1987, Richard A. Posner Jan 1987

The Decline Of Law As An Autonomous Discipline: 1962-1987, Richard A. Posner

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Self-Interest And The Constitution, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1987

Self-Interest And The Constitution, Richard A. Epstein

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Intellectual Integration, James Boyd White Jan 1987

Intellectual Integration, James Boyd White

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In this paper, I want to talk about the activity of intellectual integration itself: about what it can mean to integrate-to put together in a complex whole-aspects of our culture, or of the world, that seem to us disparate or unconnected; and what it can mean in so doing to integrate-to bring together in interactive life-aspects of our own minds and beings that we normally separate or divide from each other: I want to think of integration, that is-and of its opposite, disintegration-as taking place on two planes of existence at once, the cultural and the individual. For what is …


Thinking About Our Language, James Boyd White Jan 1987

Thinking About Our Language, James Boyd White

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Except for one meeting, which I will describe below, I knew Bob Cover only through his writings. This circumstance was of course a disappointment to me, for our interests were similar, and his death now makes the loss irreparable. But perhaps this is less of a limitation than would normally be the case, for as much as anyone in the law Bob was, and is, actively present in his writing, both as a person and as a mind.-But that dichotomy of person and mind gets it wrong, for what I would like to catch is a sense of fusion or …


Economics And Law: Two Cultures In Tension, James Boyd White Jan 1987

Economics And Law: Two Cultures In Tension, James Boyd White

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I want to preface my remarks by saying something about the kind of talk this is going to be. As my title says, I shall speak mainly about economics and law, which I shall examine as forms of thought and life, or what I shall call cultures. With law, about which in fact I shall speak rather briefly, I am naturally familiar by training and experience. But with economics I am familiar only as an observer­ as a general reader who reads the newspaper, as a lawyer who has followed a little of the law and economics literature, and as …


Law And Metaphysics, Charles M. Yablon Jan 1987

Law And Metaphysics, Charles M. Yablon

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Text Into Theory: A Literary Approach To The Constitution, Richard H. Weisberg Jul 1986

Text Into Theory: A Literary Approach To The Constitution, Richard H. Weisberg

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The article explores the evolving dialogue between legal scholars and literary theorists, particularly focusing on how judicial opinions can be viewed as narrative fictions. It challenges traditional notions of textual autonomy in legal interpretation, suggesting that meaning is not fixed but is shaped by subjective readings. The analysis critiques the dichotomy between interpretivism and noninterpretivism, arguing that both approaches are inherently subjective. Drawing on historical and structural interpretations of the Constitution, the article advocates for a balanced approach that considers both textual integrity and communal values, emphasizing that constitutional truths are embedded within societal ideas rather than being strictly majoritarian …


The Relationship Of Church Growth And Systematic Theology, Elmer L. Towns Mar 1986

The Relationship Of Church Growth And Systematic Theology, Elmer L. Towns

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A Last Word On Eminent Domain, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1986

A Last Word On Eminent Domain, Richard A. Epstein

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A Last Word On Eminent Domain, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1986

A Last Word On Eminent Domain, Richard A. Epstein

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Legal Formalism, Legal Realism, And The Interpretation Of Statutes And The Constitution, Richard A. Posner Jan 1986

Legal Formalism, Legal Realism, And The Interpretation Of Statutes And The Constitution, Richard A. Posner

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A current focus of legal debate is the proper role of the courts in the interpretation of statutes and the Constitution. Are judges to look solely to the naked language of an enactment, then logically deduce its application in simple syllogistic fashion, as legal formalists had purported to do? Or may the inquiry into meaning be informed by perhaps unbridled and unaccountable judicial notions of public policy, using legal realism to best promote the general welfare? Judge Posner considers the concepts of formalism and realism to be meaningful and useful in common law reasoning but in interpretation to be useless …


Positive And Negative Constitutional Rights, David P. Currie Jan 1986

Positive And Negative Constitutional Rights, David P. Currie

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Past And Future: The Temporal Dimension In The Law Of Property, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1986

Past And Future: The Temporal Dimension In The Law Of Property, Richard A. Epstein

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Alternative Methodologies In Contemporary Jurisprudence: Comments On Dworkin, Philip E. Soper Jan 1986

Alternative Methodologies In Contemporary Jurisprudence: Comments On Dworkin, Philip E. Soper

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I have two brief points to make. Both involve recent developments in jurisprudence, by which I mean by and large the subject that Ronald Dworkin has just been discussing. Indeed, the first point is little more than an acknowledgement of the debt that is owed to Dworkin, not only for his specific contributions to this field, but for the implications of his work for law teaching generally.


Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White Jan 1986

Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White

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I have written earlier in these pages about the expectations-the fears and hopes-that one can appropriately bring to law school. In this paper I speak to those who are immersed in the process of legal education, on one side of the podium or the other, and wish to say something of what I think it is, and can be, all about.


The Uncertain Quest For Welfare Rights, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1985

The Uncertain Quest For Welfare Rights, Richard A. Epstein

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One Use Of Computerized Instructional Gaming In Legal Education: To Better Understand The Rich Logical Structure Of Legal Rules And Improve Legal Writing, Layman E. Allen, Charles S. Saxon Jan 1985

One Use Of Computerized Instructional Gaming In Legal Education: To Better Understand The Rich Logical Structure Of Legal Rules And Improve Legal Writing, Layman E. Allen, Charles S. Saxon

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This article describes an innovation in legal education and speculates about its importance and effectiveness as an educational tool. The speculations about its potential use, however, are ones that each legal educator will be able to test individually to determine the effectiveness of this use of microcomputers to improve legal education. The computer software that permits the innovation to be used will be available to interested persons by the time that this article is published.


A Response To Fish And White, Richard H. Weisberg Oct 1984

A Response To Fish And White, Richard H. Weisberg

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The article explores the dynamic interplay between the text and its interpreter within legal and literary hermeneutics, emphasizing the balance between the text's inherent qualities and the reader's contextual influences. It mediates between Fish's emphasis on professional context guiding interpretation and Fiss's advocacy for objective textual constraints, while highlighting White's view that judicial opinions should be complex and poetic, integrating cultural context.


The Interpretation Of Contracts Governing Corporate Debt Relationships, William Wilson Bratton Jan 1984

The Interpretation Of Contracts Governing Corporate Debt Relationships, William Wilson Bratton

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Criminalizing Juvenile Justice: Rules Of Procedure For The Juvenile Court, Barry C. Feld Jan 1984

Criminalizing Juvenile Justice: Rules Of Procedure For The Juvenile Court, Barry C. Feld

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The 1967 United States Supreme Court decision In re Gault 1 precipitated a procedural revolution that has transformed the juvenile court into a legal institution very different from that envisioned by its Progressive creators. 2 In the years since Gault, states have struggled to bring the administration of their juvenile courts into harmony with the requirements of the Constitution, 3 aided by professional commentary and the continuing evolution of juvenile procedural due process requirements.


The Language Of The Arms Race: Should The People Limit Government Speech, Richard Delgado Jan 1984

The Language Of The Arms Race: Should The People Limit Government Speech, Richard Delgado

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Legal Theory And The Obligation To Obey, Philip E. Soper Jan 1984

Legal Theory And The Obligation To Obey, Philip E. Soper

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Contributions to this symposium will undoubtedly share, with other recent discussions of the issue, the assumption that one does not need to decide what law is before deciding whether there is an obligation to obey it. More precisely, the assumption seems to be that our ordinary, pre-analytic understanding of "law" provides a completely adequate base for discussions about law's moral authority. The more refined disputes about the nature of law that dominate analytical jurisprudence can thus be ignored.


The Meaning Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Richard A. Posner Jan 1983

The Meaning Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Richard A. Posner

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Interpersonal Privacy And The Fourth Amendment, Albert W. Alschuler Jan 1983

Interpersonal Privacy And The Fourth Amendment, Albert W. Alschuler

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Statutory Interpretation--In The Classroom And In The Courtroom, Richard A. Posner Jan 1983

Statutory Interpretation--In The Classroom And In The Courtroom, Richard A. Posner

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This paper continues a discussion begun in an earlier paper in this journal.1 That paper dealt primarily with the implications for statutory interpretation of the interest-group theory of legislation, recently revivified by economists; it also dealt with constitutional interpretation. This paper focuses on two topics omitted in the earlier one: the need for better instruction in legislation in the law schools and the vacuity of the standard guideposts to reading statutes- the "canons of construction." The topics turn out to be related. The last part of the paper contains a positive proposal on how to interpret statutes.


The Persistence Of Classical Style, Patrick O. Gudridge Jan 1983

The Persistence Of Classical Style, Patrick O. Gudridge

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The Invisible Discourse Of The Law: Reflections On Legal Literacy And General Education, James Boyd White Jan 1983

The Invisible Discourse Of The Law: Reflections On Legal Literacy And General Education, James Boyd White

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My subject today is "legal literacy," but to put it that way requires immediate clarification, for that phrase has a wide range of possible meanings with many of which we shall have nothing to do. At one end of its spectrum of significance, for example, "legal literacy" means full competence in legal discourse, both as reader and as writer. This kind of literacy is the object of a professional education, and it requires not only a period of formal schooling but years of practice as well. Indeed, as is also the case with other real languages, the ideal of perfect …