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| Genre/Form: | Quelle |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Canon of American legal thought. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006 (OCoLC)607910890 Online version: Canon of American legal thought. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006 (OCoLC)630495071 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Kennedy; William W Fisher |
| ISBN: | 9780691120010 0691120013 9780691120003 0691120005 |
| OCLC Number: | 76892454 |
| Description: | viii, 925 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. I. Attacking the old order: 1900-1940. The path of law / Oliver Wendall Holmes ; Some fundamental legal conceptions as applied in judicial reasoning / Wesley Hohfeld ; Coercion and distribution in a supposedly noncoercive state / Robert Hale ; Logical method and law / John Dewey ; Some realism about realism / Karl Llewellyn ; Transcendental nonsense and the functional approach / Felix Cohen -- Pt. II. A new order : the legal process, policy, and principle : 1940-1960. Consideration and form / Lon L. Fuller ; The legal process: basic problems in the making and application of law / Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks ; Toward neutral principles of constitutional law / Herbert Wechsler -- Pt. III. The emergence of eclecticism : 1960-2000. The problem of social cost / Ronald H. Coase ; Property rules, liability rules, and inalienability : one view of the cathedral / Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed ; Non-contractual relations in business : a preliminary study / Stewart Macaulay ; Why the 'haves' come out ahead : speculations on the limits of legal change / Marc Galanter ; Hard cases / Ronald Dworkin ; The role of the judge in public law litigation / Abram Chayes ; Form and substance in private law adjudication / Duncan Kennedy ; Violence and the word / Robert Cover ; Law's republic / Frank Michelman ; Feminism, Marxism, method, and the state : an agenda for theory / Catharine A. MacKinnon ; Feminism, Marxism, method, and the state : toward a feminine jurisprudence / Catharine A. MacKinnon ; Introduction / Kimberle Crenshaw ... [et al.]. |
| Other Titles: | American legal thought |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Kennedy and William W. Fisher III ; illustrated by Doug Mayhew. |
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The editors provide an introduction to each article, making the sophisticated scholarship more accessible and highlighting connections among articles whose subjects range from contracts to republican theory. While not everyone will agree with the editors' selections, Professors David Kennedy and William Fisher have undeniably performed a valuable service to scholars and students and have provided an important baseline for understanding legal thought. -- Harvard Law Review [This book] is invaluable evidence that the study of law and the distinctive arguments and claims characteristic to legal practice and academia, are worthy of study as an autonomous discipline. In an age where the legal academy is increasingly moving toward a 'law and --' model of scholarship, this weighty reminder that the law warrants its own study could not be more timely. -- Aziz Huq, New York Law Journal [W]hile this specialized and sophisticated compendium is not light summer reading, it is for the interested scholar with some legal background who wants a survey of contemporary American legal thought and the grounding to take that interest further. -- George Conyne, American Studies There is much in this compilation to admire, and it would actually make sense to make every American law professor ... read and ponder these pieces. -- Stephen B. Presser, The American Lawyer Read more...
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