James Boyd White

James Boyd White

James Boyd White (born 1938) is an American law professor, literary critic, scholar and philosopher who is generally credited with founding the "Law and Literature" movement and is the preeminent proponent of the analysis of constitutive rhetoric in the analysis of legal texts.

Biography

White attended Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1960 with a B.A. in Classics, and went on to earn an M.A. in English Literature from Harvard University in 1961, and an LL.B. from the Harvard Law School in 1964.

He practiced with the firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot in Boston before moving into teaching. He taught at the University of Colorado School of Law from 1967 to 1974, at the University of Chicago Law School from 1974 to 1983, and has been at the University of Michigan Law School from 1983 until the present. At Michigan, White is the L. Hart Wright Professor of Law, Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Classics. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Works

White's most well-known book, "The Legal Imagination", was published in 1973. That book was designed essentially as a textbook for students studying legal language. In "The Legal Imagination," literary and other texts are compared to legal texts in the way they "constitute" the identities of characters and the meanings of concepts. That book is thought to have "kicked off" the Law & Literature movement and is still widely influential.

White's subsequent books include:
*"When Words Lose Their Meaning" (1984)
*"Heracles' Bow" (1988)
*"Justice As Translation" (1990)
*"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)
*"The Edge of Meaning" (2003)
*"Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force"(2006)

External links

* [http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=14 White's profile at University of Michigan website]
* [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbwhite/ White's home page (featuring a listing of his books)]


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