Legal Canons / / ed. by Sanford V. Levinson, Jack M. Balkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ansley, Fran,; Ayres, Ian,; Balkin, J. M.,; Bartlett, Katharine T.,; Bobbitt, Philip,; Carrington, Paul D.,; Chamallas, Martha,; Farber, Daniel A.,; Franke, Katherine M.,; Kennedy, Randall,; Levinson, Sanford,; Rose, Carol M.,; Sherry, Suzanna,; Weisberg, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Balkin, Jack M.,; Levinson, Sanford V.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 be...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I. Introduction
• 1 Legal Canons: An Introduction
• Part II. The Canon in the Curriculum
• 2 Empire or Residue: Competing Visions of the Contractual Canon
• 3 Canons of Property Talk, or, Blackstone’s Anxiety
• 4 Vanished from the First Year: Lost Torts and Deep Structures in Tort Law
• 5 Criminal Law
• 6 Teaching American Civil Procedure since 1779
• 7 Of Coase and the Canon: Reflections on Law and Economics
• Part III. The Canon and Groups
• 8 Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia
• 9 Recognizing Race in the American Legal Canon
• 10 Feminist Canon
• 11 Homosexuals, Torts, and Dangerous Things
• Part IV. The Constitutional Canon
• 12 The Constitutional Canon
• 13 The Canon in Constitutional Law
• 14 Constitutional Canons and Constitutional Thought
• Contributors
• Permissions
• Index