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Legal Canons

Name: Legal Canons
Author: Jack Balkin
ISBN: 9780814709030

by Jack Balkin, Sanford Levinson

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Overview

Legal Canons brings together 14 essays which map out the legal canon and the way in which law is taught today. Each essay focuses on a particular aspect of canonicity, from contracts and constitutional law to the study of race and gender. Leading scholars offer their views about the canonical texts, arguments and approaches in their fields - both those generally recognized and those under-appreciated or ignored. The discussions range from the history of legal education to the recent ascendance of law and economics, feminism, critical race theory, and gay legal studies.

About the Author, Jack Balkin

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, and the founder and director of Yale’s Information Society Project. He is the author of numerous books and the editor of What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (NYU Press, 2002). He lives in New Haven, CT.

Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance and Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It).