Justice as Translation : An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism

Justice as Translation : An Essay in Cultural and Legal CriticismAuthor: White, James Boyd USA Published on 17 October 1994 by The University of Chicago Press (University of Chicago Press) in the United States. Paperback softback 332 pages 228 x 152 x 21 532g White extends his conception of United States law as a constitutive rhetoric shaping American legal culture that he proposed in When Words Lose Their Meaning, and asks how Americans can and should criticize this culture and the texts it creates. In determining

Author: White, James Boyd

USA

Published on 17 October 1994 by The University of Chicago Press (University of Chicago Press) in the United States.

Paperback / softback | 332 pages
228 x 152 x 21 | 532g

White extends his conception of United States law as a constitutive rhetoric shaping American legal culture that he proposed in When Words Lose Their Meaning, and asks how Americans can and should criticize this culture and the texts it creates. In determining if a judicial opinion is good or bad, he explores the possibility of cultural criticism, the nature of conceptual language, the character of economic and legal discourse, and the appropriate expectations for critical and analytic writing. White employs his unique approach by analyzing individual cases involving the Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution and demonstrates how a judge translates the facts and the legal tradition, creating a text that constructs a political and ethical community with its readers.