The Legal Imagination

The Legal Imagination
Author: James Boyd White
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1985-12-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0226894932

White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it. "A fascinating study of the language of the law. . . . This book is to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to read it, it will broaden the mind, and give lawyers a new insight into their role."—New Law Journal