Groundbreaking articles by UW Law Professors Stewart Macaulay and Marc Galanter are among the twenty chosen to represent the canon of American legal thought since 1890 in a new book published in December 2006 by the Princeton University Press.
The Canon of American Legal Thought, by David Kennedy and William W. Fisher III, includes Macaulay’s "Non-Contractual Relations in Business" and Galanter’s "Why the Haves Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change."
The book jacket includes this description of the contents:
This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. These are the articles that have made these authors -- from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Ronald Cose, Ronald Dworkin, and Catharine MacKinnon -- among the most recognized names in American legal history.
Other authors whose work was selected for the canon include John Dewey, Karl Llewellyn, Lon Fuller, and Duncan Kennedy. The book also contains appraisals of both Macaulay’s and Galanter’s writings by David Kennedy. These emphasize the role of the University of Wisconsin Law School and Willard Hurst in the development of the influential Law and Society movement.
An additional Wisconsin connection is author Kimberle Crenshaw, who received her LL.M. from the UW Law School as a William H. Hastie Fellow and clerked for Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Crenshaw, a well-known expert on Critical Race Theory, is a Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School.
Submitted by on January 18, 2007
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