The Canon of American Legal Thought (eBook)

David Kennedy, William W. Fisher (Herausgeber)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18642-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. These are the articles that have made these authors--from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to Ronald Coase, from Ronald Dworkin to Catherine MacKinnon--among the most recognized names in American legal history. These authors proposed answers to the classic question: "What does it mean to think like a lawyer--an American lawyer?" Their answers differed, but taken together they form a powerful brief for the existence of a distinct and powerful style of reasoning--and of rulership. The legal mind is as often critical as constructive, however, and these texts form a canon of critical thinking, a toolbox for resisting and unravelling the arguments of the best legal minds. Each article is preceded by a short introduction highlighting the article's main ideas and situating it in the context of its author's broader intellectual projects, the scholarly debates of his or her time, and the reception the article received. Law students and their teachers will benefit from seeing these classic writings, in full, in the context of their original development. For lawyers, the collection will take them back to their best days in law school. All readers will be struck by the richness, the subtlety, and the sophistication with which so many of what have become the clichés of everyday legal argument were originally formulated.

Autor

David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School. His books include The Dark Sides of Virtue and Of War and Law(forthcoming) (both Princeton). William W. Fisher III is Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. His most recent book is Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern
• Schlagworte: Abrams v. United States • Adjudication • Admission (law) • American capitalism • American Enterprise Institute • American Law Institute • American Law Library • American Philosophy • Analytical Jurisprudence • attempt • Choice of Law • Code of law • Common Law • Consideration • Constitutionalism • constitutional law • Contract • Critical Legal Studies • critical race theory • Criticism • Deem (law) • defendant • democracy in America • Due Process • Due Process Clause • Duncan Kennedy (legal philosopher) • English law • Equal Rights Amendment • Explanation • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Finality (law) • formality • habeas corpus • Hadley v Baxendale • Harvard Law Review • Ideology • Individualism • injunction • Institution • Intention (criminal law) • International News Service v. Associated Press • Judicial Activism • judicial deference • Judicial interpretation • Judiciary • Jurisprudence • Jurist • law and economics • Law and Literature • Law in Action • Law of the United States • Law School • Law's Empire • lawyer • Legal burden of proof • legal consciousness • Legal culture • Legal Doctrine • Legal Education • Legal Formalism • Legal Positivism • Legal Practice • legal process • Legal process (jurisprudence) • legal profession • Legal Realism • Legal Science • Legal Translation • Legislation • liberal legalism • Luther v. Borden • Morality • NAACP v. Button • national Lawyers Guild • Objection (law) • Philosophy of Law • plaintiff • Police power (United States constitutional law) • Politics • Precedent • private law • Procedural due process • Procedural law • public interest law • public law • Republicanism • Rule of Law • rule of reason • Sociology of Law • Standing (law) • Statute • Substantive Due Process • Tax • The Book of the Law • Tort • United States antitrust law • United States v. Classic • Utilitarianism • Yale Law Journal
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18642-1 / 0691186421
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18642-9 / 9780691186429