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BL
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1046202
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b800572
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Balkin, Jack.
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Legal Canons.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: NYU Press,, 2000.
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1 online resource (456 pages)
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0814709036
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: 9780814709030
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0814798578
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Balkin.0814798578; 9780814798577_Balkin_text.pdf; Contents; Preface; pa r t I . Introduction; 1 Legal Canons: An Introduction; pa r t II. The Canon in the Curriculum; 2 Empire or Residue: Competing Visions of the Contractual Canon; 3 Canons of Property Talk, or, Blackstone's Anxiety; 4 Vanished from the First Year: Lost Torts and Deep Structures in Tort Law; 5 Criminal Law; 6 Teaching American Civil Procedure since 1779; 7 Of Coase and the Canon: Reflections on Law and Economics; pa r t III . The Canon and Groups; 8 Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia.
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9 Recognizing Race in the American Legal Canon10 Feminist Canon; 11 Homosexuals, Torts, and Dangerous Things; pa r t IV. The Constitutional Canon; 12 The Constitutional Canon; 13 The Canon in Constitutional Law; 14 Constitutional Canons and Constitutional Thought; Contributors; Permissions; Index.
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| Abstract
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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 i.
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Law-- Study and teaching-- United States.
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Law-- United States, Sources.
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LAW-- Government-- General.
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Law-- Study and teaching.
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Law.
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United States.
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340.071
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KF272 .L426 2000
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Levinson, Sanford.
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