Title: Interpreting law and literature : a hermeneutic reader /
Authors: Levinson, Sanford, 1941-; Mailloux, Steven
Publisher: Northwestern University Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Constitutional law United States; Hermeneutics.; Law and literature.; Herméneutique.; Droit et littérature.; Droit constitutionnel États-Unis Interprétation.; Hermeneutiek.; Rechtstheorie.; Literatuurtheorie.; Tekstanalyse.; Poststructuralisme.; Droit constitutionnel Etats-Unis Interprétation.; Constitutional law; Hermeneutics; Law and literature; United States
Contents: The Constitution of the United States : contemporary ratification / William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Address before the D.C. chapter of the Federalist Society Lawyers Division / Edwin Meese III -- Sonnet LXV and the "Black ink" of the framers' intention / Charles Fried -- On sonnet LXV / Philip Martin -- Counterfactuals in interpretation / E.D. Hirsch, Jr. -- The misconceived quest for the original understanding / Paul Brest -- James Madison's theory of constitutional interpretation / H. Jefferson Powell -- Dead letters : wills and poems / Michael Hancher -- Statuatory interpretation and literary theory : some common concerns of an unlikely pair / Kenneth S. Abraham -- An essay on constitutional language / Frederick Schauer -- Law as literature / Sanford Levinson -- Keep off the grass, drop dead, and other indeterminacies : a response to Sanford Levinson / Gerald Graff -- On the use and abuse of Nietzsche for modern constitutional theory / Richard Weisberg -- Following the rules laid down : a critique of interpretivism and neutral principles / Mark V. Tushnet -- Against formalism : chickens and rocks / Walter Benn Michaels -- Objectivity and interpretation / Owen M. Fiss -- Fish vs. Fiss / Stanley Fish -- The poetics of legal interpretation / Jessica Lane -- An essay in the deconstruction of contract doctrine / Clare Dalton -- Interpreting the law : hermeneutical and poststructuralist perspectives / David Couzens Hoy -- Rhetorical hermeneutics / Steven Mailloux -- From Constitutional fate : theory of the Constitution / Philip Bobbitt -- The fate of the Constitution / Walter Benn Michaels -- Judicial criticism / James Boyd White.