James Boyd White

Hart Wright Professor of Law Emeritus, Professor of English Emeritus

Office Telephone: 734-936-2989

Email: jbwhite@umich.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Michigan Law School Faculty Biography


Books

 

The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression (Little, Brown, 1973)
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Preface
  Constitutional Criminal Procedure (with Scarboro, Foundation Press, l976)
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When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community (Chicago, 1984)
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Preface
   Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law (Wisconsin, 1985)
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Foreword
The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression, Abridged Edition (Chicago, 1986)
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Preface
  Justice as Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism (Chicago, 1990)
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Introduction
"This Book of Starres": Learning to Read George Herbert (Michigan, 1994)
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Preface		   Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics (Chicago, 1994)
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Preface
From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education (Michigan, 1999)
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Preface		   The Edge of Meaning (Chicago, 2001)
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Preface
How Should We Talk About Religion? (Notre Dame, 2006) (edited volume)
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Introduction 		  Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force (Princeton, 2006)
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Preface
Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force (University of Michigan Press, 2009) H. Jefferson Powell and James Boyd White, editors
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Quando le Parole Perdono il Loro Significato, (Giuffrè Editore, 2010) (translation of When Words Lose Their Meaning).
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Connecting to the Gospel: Texts, Sermons, Commentaries, (Wipf & Stock, 2010)
Table of Contents and Introduction		   The Gospel as Conversation Texts, Sermons, and Questions for Reflection: A Study Guide, (Wipf & Stock, 2013)
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Introduction
Preface
Keep Law Alive (Carolina Academic Press) James Boyd White
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Foreword		   Let in the Light (Columbia University Press) James Boyd White
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Overview
Lectures Separately Published
"How Should We Talk about Religion?" (Erasmus Institute Lecture)   When Language Meets the Mind: Three Questions  (Wolf Legal Publishing, 2006) (Montesquieu Lecture)
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Also of Interest
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"MLR 105.7 1387-1419"   The Legal Imagination - 45th Anniversary Edition
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