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Justice as Translation An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism

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ISBN-10: 0226894967

ISBN-13: 9780226894966

Edition: 1994

Authors: James Boyd White

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White extends his conception of United States law as a constitutive rhetoric shaping American legal culture that he proposed in When Words Lose Their Meaning, and asks how Americans can and should criticize this culture and the texts it creates. In determining if a judicial opinion is good or bad, he explores the possibility of cultural criticism, the nature of conceptual language, the character of economic and legal discourse, and the appropriate expectations for critical and analytic writing. White employs his unique approach by analyzing individual cases involving the Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution and demonstrates how a judge translates the facts and the legal…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/17/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Introduction
Looking at our Languages
Intellectual Integration
The Language of Concepts: A Case Study
The Language and Culture of Economics Appendix to Chapter Three
The Judicial Opinion as a Form of Life
Judicial Criticism
"Original Intention" in the Slave Cases
"Plain Meaning" and Translation: The Olmstead Opinions
The Reading of Precedent: United States v. White
The Fourth Amendment as a Way of Talking About People: The Robinson Case
The Constitutive Character of the Exclusionary Rule
The Judicial Opinion as a Form of Life
The Activity of Translation
Translation, Interpretation, and Law
Justice as Translation
Notes
Index
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