Law and Language

Thomas Morawetz, University of Connecticut, USA James Boyd White, Richard Hyland, Timothy A.O. Endicott, Sanford Levinson, Thomas C. Grey, David Couzens Hoy, J.M. Balkin, Stanley E. Fish, Louis Henkin, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Thomas I. Emerson, Robert C. Post.

• Contents: Law as Expression: Thinking about our language, James Boyd White; Babel: a she'ur, Richard Hyland; Law as rhetoric, rhetoric as law: The arts of cultural and communal life, James Boyd White. Law and Literature: Finding Meaning: Linguistic indeterminacy, Timothy A.O. Endicott; Law as literature, Sanford Levinson; The hermeneutics file, Thomas C. Grey; Interpreting the law: hermeneutical and poststructuralist perspectives, David Couzens Hoy; Transcendental deconstruction, transcendent justice, J.M. Balkin; The annual John Randolph Tucker Lecture - force, Stanley E. Fish. The Law of Language: Morals and the constitution: the sin of obscenity, Louis Henkin; Pornography as defamation and discrimination, Catharine A. MacKinnon; Pornography and the 1st Amendment: a reply to Professor MacKinnon, Thomas I. Emerson; Cultural heterogeneity and law: pornography, blasphemy and the 1st Amendment, Robert C. Post; Name index.

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