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Erscheinungsdatum: 1973
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White, James B. The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. xxxv, 986 pp. Publisher's original yellow cloth hardcover, with black spine lettering, as new. Internally clean. A fine copy. $95. * "The contemporary law and literature movement began with the publication of [this book]. Arguing for the inclusion of literary studies in legal education, White urged that law is best understood as an art, not as a social science. Articulating justice, White suggests, requires a hybrid act of imagination drawing on the precedents of fiction, poetry and drama, as well as those of case and code.": The Oxford Companion to American Law 487. Contents: The lawyer as writer; The limits and resources of legal language: an introduction to your literary circumstances; How the law talks about people: "who is this man?"; Rules and relationships; Judgement and explanation: the legal mind at work; The imagination of the lawyer; The education of the lawyer; Appendix. Supplementary writing assignments.