Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2007
Publication Information
52 Am. J. Juris. 319 (2007) (book review)
Abstract
Professors Kennedy and Fisher have put together a book containing twenty essays, most of them first published in law reviews. They are elegantly presented, and each is preceded by an introductory essay by one of the editors, which provides background information on the author, analyzes the piece lucidly and succinctly, and situates it in the development of American legal thought. Each piece is also preceded by a bibliography, which further situates it by describing the rest of the author's work and summarizing the commentary it has evoked. All the works are given in full, adding considerably to what can be learned from the casebook extracts. It is interesting, for instance, to learn what cases Felix Cohen uses to illustrate his famous Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach (173), and to find on looking them up that they are neither transcendental nor nonsense.
Recommended Citation
Robert E. Rodes,
The Canon of American Legal Thought,
52 Am. J. Juris. 319 (2007) (book review).
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