faculty interest : law

faculty interest info : law

White, James Boyd. L.L.B, Harvard, 1964. Professor of English and the Law School (teaching, Winter term). Primary Interests: Analysis of texts and discourse systems, especially American law, seventeenth and eighteenth-century English literature, George Herbert, and the literature of Ancient Greece. Secondary Interests: Poetry; narrative and critical theory. Publications: Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law and Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1994); "This Book of Starres": Learning to Read George Herbert (University of Michigan Press, 1994); Justice as Translation: An Essay on Cultural and Legal Criticism (University of Chicago Press, 1990); Heracles Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985); When Words Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community (University of Chicago Press, 1984); Constitutional Criminal Procedure (with Scarboro; Foundation Press, 1976); The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression (Little Brown, 1983); articles on law and language, legal literacy, Homer, etc.

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