
Law and the Order of Culture
Robert Post(Editor)
University of California Press
Published on 14. May 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-520-07337-1 (ISBN)
Description
Law and the Order of Culture is an outstanding collection of essays that explores the cultural creation of legal meaning, addressing interpretive processes within the law as well as the social constitution of legal doctrine. Originally published in Representations, these essays are at the center of the "law and literature" movement which exemplifies a burgeoning literature in feminist jurisprudence, critical legal studies, and other work that has focused on law as evidence of cultural orderings. For this edition Robert Post has written a new introduction, proposing an analytic framework for this literature and discussion of the seven essays contained within the book.
Ranging over a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors to the volume address such central issues as the construction of legal normativity, interpretive theory and practice in constitutional law, the function of legal metaphors, the interpretive foundations of the law/fact distinction, and the role of politics in contemporary critical legal studies. Law and the Order of Culture will attract a broad and eclectic readership across many disciplines.
Ranging over a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors to the volume address such central issues as the construction of legal normativity, interpretive theory and practice in constitutional law, the function of legal metaphors, the interpretive foundations of the law/fact distinction, and the role of politics in contemporary critical legal studies. Law and the Order of Culture will attract a broad and eclectic readership across many disciplines.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-07337-1 (9780520073371)
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Person
Robert Post teaches constitutional law at the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Content
Generalization in Interpretive Theory, Joseph Vining
Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, Robert Post
Facing Facts in Legal Interpretation, Kim Lane Scheppele
The Placement of Politics in Roberto Unger's Politics, Martin Stone
Enlightenment Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary France, 1777-1793, Carla Hesse
Norms, Discipline, and the Law, Francois Ewald
Law, Boundaries, and the Bounded Self, Jennifer Nedelsky
Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, Robert Post
Facing Facts in Legal Interpretation, Kim Lane Scheppele
The Placement of Politics in Roberto Unger's Politics, Martin Stone
Enlightenment Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary France, 1777-1793, Carla Hesse
Norms, Discipline, and the Law, Francois Ewald
Law, Boundaries, and the Bounded Self, Jennifer Nedelsky