Law and the Order of Culture (Representations books ; 4)

Law and the Order of Culture is an outstanding collection of essays that explores the cultural creation of legal meaning, addressing interpretive processes within the law as well as the social constitution of legal doctrine. Originally published in Representations , these essays are at the center of the "law and literature" movement which exemplifies a burgeoning literature in feminist jurisprudence, critical legal studies, and other work that has focused on law as evidence of cultural orderings. For this edition Robert Post has written a new introduction, proposing an analytic framework for this literature and discussion of the seven essays contained within the book. Ranging over a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors to the volume address such central issues as the construction of legal normativity, interpretive theory and practice in constitutional law, the function of legal metaphors, the interpretive foundations of the law/fact distinction, and the role of politics in contemporary critical legal studies. Law and the Order of Culture will attract a broad and eclectic readership across many disciplines. Generalization In Interpretive Theory / Joseph Vining -- Theories Of Constitutional Interpretation / Robert Post -- Facing Facts In Legal Interpretation / Kim Lane Scheppele -- The Placement Of Politics In Roberto Unger's Politics / Martin Stone -- Enlightenment Epistemology And The Laws Of Authorship In Revolutionary France, 1777-1793 / Carla Hesse -- Norms, Discipline, And The Law / Francois Ewald -- Law, Boundaires, And The Bounded Self / Jennifer Nedelsky Edited, And With A New Introduction, By Robert Post. Originally Published As Representations, No. 30, Spring 1990--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.