James Boyd White

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James Boyd White (* 1938 ) is an American law professor , literary critic , university professor and philosopher who is widely credited with founding the " law and literature " movement. He is a proponent of the analysis of constitutive rhetoric in the analysis of legal texts.

Life

White attended Amherst College , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies in 1960 . In 1961 he made his Master of Arts in English Literature , and in 1964 a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School .

He worked at Foley Hoag in Boston before he started teaching. He taught at the University of Colorado School of Law from 1967 to 1974, from 1974 to 1983 at the University of Chicago Law School and since 1983 at the University of Michigan Law School . In Michigan , White is Professor of Law, Professor of English, and Associate Professor of Classical Studies . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1992 .

Works

Whites most famous book, The Legal Imagination , was published in 1973. It was designed as a textbook for students studying legal language. In The Legal Imagination literary and other texts are compared with texts by the identity of characters and the meaning of concepts are identified. It is believed that this book started the law-and-literature movement and continues to have a major impact on it.

White's other books include:

  • When Words Lose Their Meaning (1984)
  • Heracles 'Bow (1988) (to German Herakules' bow)
  • Justice As Translation (1990) (on German justice as translation)
  • Acts of Hope (1994)
  • "This Book of Starres": Learning to Read George Herbert (1994)
  • From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education (2000) ( from Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education )
  • The Edge of Meaning (2003)
  • Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force (2006)

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SURNAME White, James Boyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American law professor, literary critic, university professor, and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1938