Legal modernism
Modernism in legal theory is no different from modernism in the arts: both respond to a cultural crisis, a sense that institutions and traditions have lost their validity. Some doubt the importance of the rule of law, others question the objectivity of legal reasoning. We have lost confidence in the justice of our legal institutions, and even in our very capacity to identify justice
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1994
proceedings (reports)
xiii, 406 pages ; 23 cm.
9780472103805, 0472103806
29548880
Introduction: We Copernicans
pt. 1. Theories. Ch. 1. Legal Modernism. Ch. 2. Legal Traditionalism. Ch. 3. Doubts about the New Pragmatism. Ch. 4. Hannah Arendt and the Primacy of Narrative
pt. 2. Trials. Ch. 5. Difference Made Legal: The Court and Dr. King. Ch. 6. Some Greek Trials. Ch. 7. The Legacies of Nuremberg. Ch. 8. Concluding Reflections