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Legal Canons.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Balkin, Jack
Other Authors: Levinson, Sanford
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2000.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Balkin.0814798578; 9780814798577_Balkin_text.pdf; Contents; Preface; pa r t I . Introduction; 1 Legal Canons: An Introduction; pa r t 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; pa r t III . The Canon and Groups; 8 Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia.
  • 9 Recognizing Race in the American Legal Canon10 Feminist Canon; 11 Homosexuals, Torts, and Dangerous Things; pa r t IV. The Constitutional Canon; 12 The Constitutional Canon; 13 The Canon in Constitutional Law; 14 Constitutional Canons and Constitutional Thought; Contributors; Permissions; Index.