James Boyd White
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James Boyd White (born 1938) is an American law professor,
law and Literature" movement. He is a proponent of the analysis of constitutive rhetoric
in the analysis of legal texts.
Biography
White attended
LL.B. from the Harvard Law School
in 1964.
He practiced with the firm of
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
.
Works
White's best-known book, The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression, was published in 1973. It was designed essentially as a textbook for students studying
legal language. In The Legal Imagination, literary and other texts are compared to legal texts in the way they "constitute" the identities of characters and the meanings of concepts. The book is thought to have "kicked off" the law and literature
movement and is still widely influential.
White's subsequent books include:
- When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community (1984)
- Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law (1985)
- Justice As Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism (1990)
- Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics (1994)
- "This Book of Starres": Learning to Read George Herbert (1994)
- From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education (2000)
- The Edge of Meaning (2003)
- Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force (2006)
- Keep Law Alive (2019)
External links
- White's profile at University of Michigan website
- White's home page (featuring a listing of his books)
- Comment on James Boyd White's Living Speech, by Dr. Yofi Tirosh Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Works by or about James Boyd White at Internet Archive
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