Living in a Law Transformed: Encounters with the Works of
James Boyd White

Edited by
Julen Etxabe and Gary Watt

MichiganPublishing, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI., 2014, 236 pp.

ISBN:9781607853367

In 2013, an international group of jurists
gathered in London to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of James
Boyd White’s The Legal Imagination, the book that is widely credited with
instigating and inspiring the modern “law and literature” and “law and
humanities” movements in university teaching and research. The authors of each
of the twelve essays in this collection offer a personal reflection on
teaching, researching, and practicing law in the light of White’s invitation to
reimagine the law and our own relationship with it. Each is therefore a
personal response to the challenge of bringing legal work to life and life to
legal work. Topics covered range from rhetoric to human rights, from silence to
slow reading, from film to material culture, and from the natural world to the
realm of religious experience. This book hopes to make life in the law more
meaningful for the scholar, the judge, the attorney, and the student, following
the sometimes hard path that James Boyd White set for himself to follow.

Table of
Contents

• Editors’
  Introduction — Julen
  Etxabe and Gary Watt




• [1]
  Law and Literature Redux? Some Remarks on the Importance of the Legal
  Imagination — Jeanne
  Gaakeer




• [2]
  Towards a Critique of Narrative Reason — François Ost




• [3]
  Imagining Rhetoric, Approaching Justice — Willem Witteveen




• [4]
  It’s Not All About Pretty: Human Rights Adjudication in a Life and Death
  Situation — Julen
  Etxabe




• [5]
  Slow Reading and Living Speech: James Boyd White on What a Constitutional
  Law Opinion is For — H.
  Jefferson Powell




• [6]
  The Impossible Prayers of James Boyd White — Jack L. Sammons




• [7]
  Silence and Justice — Richard
  Dawson




• [8]
  Meaning In the Natural World — Joseph Vining




• [9]
  Reading Materials: The Stuff that Legal Dreams are Made On — Gary Watt




• [10]
  Reimagining “The True North Strong and Free”: Reflections on Going to the
  Movies with James Boyd White — Rebecca Johnson




• [11]
  Generating Law: Learning How to Take Care of What One Has Started — Thomas D. Eisele




• [12]
  A Gift in Yellow Clothing: Learning and Teaching with The
  Legal Imagination — Mark
  Weisberg




• Select
  Bibliography




• Contributors

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Contenidos
en abierto de esta obra, accesibles en http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/maize/12982987.0001.001

James Boyd White, 2008

Web personal del Prof.James Boyd White: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbwhite/

J.C.G.