Legal canons edited by J. M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson. - New York New York University Press 2000. - xi, 443 p. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Legal canons : an introduction / J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson - - Empire or residue : competing visions of the contraactual canon / Ian Ayres - - Canons of property talk, or, Balckstone's anxiety / Carol M. Rose - - Vanished from the first year : lost torts and deep structures in tort law Martha Chamallas - - Criminal law / Robert Weisberg - - Teaching American civil procedure since 1779 / Paul D Carrington - - Of Coase and the canon : reflections on law and economics / Daniel A. Farber - - Race realtions law in the canon of legal academia / Randall Kennedy - - Recognizing race in the American legal canon / Fran Ansley - - Feminist canon / Katharine T. Bartlett - - Homosexuals torts, and dangerous things / Katherine M. Franke - - The constitutional canon / Philip Bobbit - - The canon in constitutional law / Suzanna Sherry - - Constitutional canons and constitutional thought / J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson.

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Law--Study and teaching--United States.
Law--Sources.--United States

KF 272 / .L426 2000