Essays on adjudication
By: Duncan Kennedy
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: S.l
Language: eng
Subjects: Critical legal studies; Judge-made law; Law; Political aspects; Postmodernism
Notes: Title from cover.

Essays previously published between 1976 and 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Legal formality; title: Toward an historical understanding of legal consciousness: the case of classical legal thought in America; title: Form and substance in private law adjudication; title: Freedom and constraint in adjudication: a critical phenomenology; title: A semiotics of legal argument; title: The stakes of law, or Hale and Foucault!; title: American constitutionalism as civil religion: notes of an atheist; title: Strategizing strategic behavior in legal interpretation; title: Law and economics from the perspective of critical legal studies; title: The political stakes in merely technical issues of contract law; title: Legal formalism; title: A left phenomenological critique of the Hart/Kelsen theory of legal interpretation; title: La place de René Demogue dans la généalogie de la pensée juridique contemporaine; title: Thoughts on coherence, social values and national tradition in private law.