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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 in law, each essay focuses on a particular aspect, from contracts and constitutional law to questions of race and gender. The ascendance of law and economics, feminism, critical race theory, and gay legal studies, as well as the increasing influence of both rational-actor methodology and postmodernism, are all scrutinized by the leading scholars in the field.
A timely and comprehensive volume, Legal Canons articulates the need for, and means to, opening the debate on canonicity in legal studies.
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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-xi
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  1. Part I Introduction
  1. Chapter 1 Legal Canons: An Introduction
  2. pp. 3-44
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  1. Part II The Canon in the Curriculum
  1. Chapter 2 Empire or Residue Competing Visions of the Contractual Canon
  2. pp. 47-65
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  1. Chapter 3 Canons of Property Talk, or, Blackstone's Anxiety
  2. pp. 66-103
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  1. Chapter 4 Vanished from the First Year: Lost Torts and Deep Structures in Tort Law
  2. pp. 104-129
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  1. Chapter 5 Criminal Law
  2. pp. 130-154
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  1. Chapter 6 Teaching American Civil Proceduresince 1779
  2. pp. 155-183
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  1. Chapter 7 Of Coase and the Canon: Reflections on Law and Economics
  2. pp. 184-208
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  1. Part III The Canon and Groups
  1. Chapter 8 Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia
  2. pp. 211-237
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  1. Chapter 9 Recognizing Race in the American Legal Canon
  2. pp. 238-265
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  1. Chapter 10 Feminist Canon
  2. pp. 266-302
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  1. Chapter 11 Homosexuals, Torts, and Dangerous Things
  2. pp. 303-328
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  1. Part IV The Constitutional Canon
  1. Chapter 12 The Constitutional Canon
  2. pp. 331-373
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  1. Chapter 13 The Canon in Constitutional Law
  2. pp. 374-399
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  1. Chapter 14 Constitutional Canons and Constitutional Thought
  2. pp. 400-434
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  1. Contributors, Permissions
  2. pp. 435-438
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 439-443
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