The canon of American legal thought
By: edited by David Kennedy and William W. Fisher III; illustrated by Doug Mayhew
Contributors: Kennedy, David, 1954-.; Fisher, William W.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 925
ISBN-13: 9780691120003; 9780691120010
Subjects: Law -- United States -- Philosophy.; Jurisprudence -- United States.; Jurisprudence
Other titles: American legal thought
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: value: pt. I. Attacking the old order: 1900-1940. The path of law / Oliver Wendall Holmes ; Some fundamental legal conceptions as applied in judicial reasoning / Wesley Hohfeld ; Coercion and distribution in a supposedly noncoercive state / Robert Hale ; Logical method and law / John Dewey ; Some realism about realism / Karl Llewellyn ; Transcendental nonsense and the functional approach / Felix Cohen; value: pt. II. A new order: the legal process, policy, and principle: 1940-1960. Consideration and form / Lon L. Fuller ; The legal process: basic problems in the making and application of law / Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks ; Toward neutral principles of constitutional law / Herbert Wechsler; value: pt. III. The emergence of eclecticism: 1960-2000. The problem of social cost / Ronald H. Coase ; Property rules, liability rules, and inalienability: one view of the cathedral / Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed ; Non-contractual relations in business: a preliminary study / Stewart Macaulay ; Why the 'haves' come out ahead: speculations on the limits of legal change / Marc Galanter ; Hard cases / Ronald Dworkin ; The role of the judge in public law litigation / Abram Chayes ; Form and substance in private law adjudication / Duncan Kennedy ; Violence and the word / Robert Cover ; Law's republic / Frank Michelman ; Feminism, Marxism, method, and the state: an agenda for theory / Catharine A. MacKinnon ; Feminism, Marxism, method, and the state: toward a feminine jurisprudence / Catharine A. MacKinnon ; Introduction / Kimberle Crenshaw ... [et al.].