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Liberal Nationalism By Yael Tamir, Ralph F. Gaebler

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In this review, Mr. Gaebler addresses the claim that nationalism can supply a sense of community to those who live in liberal societies. He concludes that nationalism is fundamentally incompatible with the liberal values of individualism and tolerance, but that the argument presented in Liberal Nationalsim provides a useful critique of liberalism's cultural and psychological deficits. He suggests that neo-Aristotelian ethics offers a better description of liberal community than that afforded by nationalism.

Legal Imagery In The "Garden Of England", Eve Darian-Smith

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Ms. Darian-Smith explores the relationship between law and the

concept of "landscapes, "which she describes as the spatial imagery

through which law is conceived and from which it draws meaning.

She first defines the complex and historically rich concept of the

"garden image," both in general and as it is seen in (and by)

England, its people, and its surrounding political, cultural, and

spatial contexts. In general terms, the garden image is injected into

issues of environmental law. Further, she notes that the garden has

been a fluid, ever-changing concept for England's society and its

developing legal system. Specifically, Darian-Smith …