David Gurnham, Elizabeth Mertz, Robert P. Burns, Matthew Anderson, Jack L. Sammons, Thomas D. Eisele, Linda L. Berger & Linda Ross Meyer, Forty-five
years of law and literature: reflections on James Boyd White’s The Legal Imagination and its impact on law and humanities scholarship, 13 L. & Human., 95 (2019) [https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2019.1607026].
This special section of Law and Humanities focuses on the 45th anniversary
edition of James Boyd White’s The Legal Imagination: a book that was groundbreaking when it first appeared in 1973 (since it is generally credited as
having initiated the ‘law and literature’ movement) and that remains a hugely
important resource today. White’s approach to legal scholarship and
education - reading law’s instruments, its rhetoric and concepts alongside,
above, below and in-between literary works and criticism - opened up a new
world of intellectual possibilities. Realization of these possibilities has come in
the form of the growth and flourishing, not only of law and literature but also
numerous other intersections of law and the humanities that owe a debt to
White. This symposium brings together seven eminent scholars (and readers
of The Legal Imagination) to reflect on the contribution that White’s book
made and continues to make to law and humanities education and
scholarship. In the order that their essays appear, the authors for this
symposium are Elizabeth Mertz, Robert P. Burns, Matthew Anderson, Jack L.
Sammons, Thomas D. Eisele, Linda L. Berger and Linda Ross Meyer.
Keywords
James Boyd White; The Legal Imagination; law and literature; law and humanities; 45th
anniversary edition; Wolters Kluwer
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