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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 been little recent consideration of what is and what ought to be canonical in the study of law today.
Legal Canons brings together fifteen essays which seek to map out the legal canon and the way in which law is taught today. In order to understand how the twin ideas of canons and canonicity operate in law, each essay focuses on a particular aspect, from contracts and constitutional law to questions of race and gender. The ascendance of law and economics, feminism, critical race theory, and gay legal studies, as well as the increasing influence of both rational-actor methodology and postmodernism, are all scrutinized by the leading scholars in the field.
A timely and comprehensive volume, Legal Canons articulates the need for, and means to, opening the debate on canonicity in legal studies.
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About the Author
Jack Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School and author of Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology. Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author, most recently, of Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Society.
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