INDEX
A
Altman, Andrew, 204
Ames, James Barr, 275
application: Gadamer's understanding of, 106
as inseparable from understanding in interpretation, xv , 13 -15, 174
in theological hermeneutics, 111
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 5
and politics, 270
on praxis, 103
as source of modern cormmunitarian revival, 273
Aspirational meaning: of Constitution, 246 -47, 253 -55, 261 n.24
B
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 25
theory of language, 30
Barber, Benjamin, 273
Barth, Karl: conception of scriptural interpretation, 110 -11
and Protestantism, 114
relevance to postmodernism, 118
on separation between exegesis and interpretation, 105
Bartolists: as interpreters of common law, 136 -37
relevance to contemporary hermeneutical debates, 137
Beck, Anthony, 282
Beiner, Ronald, 288
Bender, Leslie, 279 -80
Bentham, Jeremy, 210
Bergin, Thomas F., 282 -83
Berlin, Isaiah, 130 -31
Bernstein, Richard: on modern absence of shared traditions, 117 -18
on practical tasks ahead, 121
Betti, Emilio: Gadamer on, 14
relevance of Aristotle to, 18 -19
Blanchot, Maurice: on Law as disaster, 155
on three realms of Kafka's trial, 147
Bork, Robert: as foundationalist, 220
and nomination to U.S. Supreme Court, 251 , 255 , 297 -99
Brennan, Justice William J., 184
Brown v. Board of Education,188 -95
Bruns, Gerald L.: criticism of, 310 -11
on law, 310
Buch v. Amory Mfg. Co ., 279 -81
Bultmann, Rudolph: evaluation of, 109
relevance to postmodernism, 118
view of biblical interpretation, 107 -9
Burton, Steven, 35 n.7
C
Calhoun, John C., 87
Cardozo, Benjamin, 202
Carter, Lief H., 315
Cavell, Stanley, 27 , 34 , 36 n.10
Charles I (king of England), 306
Citizenship: communitarian conception of, 270 -71, 273
liberal conception of, 270 -73
Consent: and legitimacy in liberal political theory, 205 -8
Cornell, Drucilia, 311 -12
Cover, Robert: and challenge of interpretation, 164 -65
on dangers of appeals to universality, 168 -69
on jurisgenerative power of law, 160
on jurispathic aspects of law, 159 -60
on law and violence, 150
on normative aspects of law, 167 -68
Critical Legal Studies (CLS): criticism of, 150 , 156 , 205 -6, 211
ethical skepticism of, xiv
and indeterminacy, 200 , 203 -5, 213 n.24
influence of Derrida on, 156
irrationalists in, 156 -59.
See also Indeterminacy thesis
D
Dalimayr, Fred: on hermeneutics and indeterminacy, 202 -3, 304
Deconstruction: compared to legal positivism, 148
and Good, 149
as misidentified with nihilism, 170
on ungrounded nature of ethical systems, 164
Derrida, Jacques: compared to Cover, 164
contrasted with ethical skeptic, 158 -59
as helpful to understanding Good and Law, 166 -67
and Levinas, 163 -66
on the self, 305
Dietze, Gottfried, 10
Duty: role in tort analysis, 279 -81, 293 n.64
Dworkin, Ronald, xiii ,
criticism of, 195
critique of Hart, 157
as foundationalist, 220
on meaning of equal protection clause, 194
on statutory interpretation, 188
E
Epstein, Richard A., 280
Ernesti, Johann August, 88
F
Faculty psychology: meaning of, 135
relevance to originalism, 135
role in founders' thought, 135
Farr, James, 316
Feminist legal theory: critical observations on, 160 -61
exposition of, 159
and tort analysis, 279 -80
Ferguson, Robert, 271 -72, 278 , 281
Fish, Stanley, 255 -56,
Fortescue, Sir John, 52 -54
Foucault, Michel, 306
Foundationalism: critique of, 235 -36
empirical implications of, 221 -22, 225 -26, 315
meaning of, 219 -29
postmodern rejection of, 148
Fourteenth Amendment: as aspirational text, 246 -47, 252 -55
as due process clause of, 187 , 254 -55
equal protection clause of, 187 -97, 253 -54
intentionalist understanding of, 298
revealing practical importance of constitutional theory, 252 -55
Frank, Jerome, 276
Fraunce, Abraham, xiii ,
background, 60
criticism of Inns of Court, 60
criticism of legal profession and method, 60
method of interpreting words, 67 -68
reformist goals, 61
and Scholasticism, 44
theory of legal argument, 64 -68
Freedman, James O., 269
Freund, Ernst, 275
G
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, xi -xiii
on intentionalism, 187 -88
on judgment, 289
on language, 27 -28, 36 n.9, 285 -86
on law, 35 n.6
on origins of hermeneutics, 13 -14
on praxis, 105 -7
on rule-governance, 13
on tradition, 26 -27
on truth, 107
Geertz, Clifford, 131
Goodrich, Peter, xiii
on hermeneutics, 26
on legal education, 276
on political function of writing, 286
Gopen, George D., 285 , 286 -87
Grey, Thomas, 274
H
Habermas, Jürgen, 114 -15
Hart, H. L. A.: Dworkin's criticism of, 157
and moderate indeterminacy, 202
as representative of legal positivism, 157
Hegel, G. W. F., 19 -20
account of Good and legal systems, 151
criticism of deontology, 148
criticism of Kant's categorical imperative, 151
on Good, 150
on justification of legal rules, 155
as representative of ontological tradition in philosophy, 153 -55
Hermeneutics. See Theological hermeneutics.
Hirsch, E. D.: on allocratic and autocratic interpretive choices, 304 -6
intentionalist critique of, 181
on theories of textual meaning, 113 -14, 124 n.32
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 202
Hoy, David: on application, 248 -49
on texts, 190
on textual meaning, 299
Humboldt, William von, 88 , 93
Hume, David, 106 -7
I
Indeterminacy thesis: alternative understandings of, 200 -202, 307
compatibility with rule of law, 202 -3, 211
in legal doctrine, 25
and legitimacy, 202 -11
and Good, 162
as misunderstood by members of CLS movement, 157 -59
practical implications of, 308 -9.
See also CLS
Inns of Court: purposes of, 54
Ramist critique of, 60
study of rhetoric in, 56 -58
Intentionalism: compared to Gadamerian hermeneutics, xv -xvi, 180 , 187 -89
criticism of, 173 -186
and historical evidence, 195 -96
Lieber's understanding of, 93 -95
methodological implications of, 195 -97, 299 -300
and possibility of authorial mistakes regarding intentions, 193 -94
practical implications of, 180 -83.
See also Originalism
J
Judgment: Gadamer on, 289
and hermeneutics, xii , 287 -89
meaning of, 288 -89
Judicial Review: as revealing heuristic value of hermeneutics, 176 , 179 -80
and rule of law, 8 -9
Judicial Role: relationship to interpretive theory, 250 -52
Jurisprudence: analytical, xii , 23 -24
end of, 33 -34
relationship to hermeneutics, xi , 15 -16, 19 , 25 -26
K
Kantian morality, 155
Kelsen, Hans, 10 -11
Kennedy, Duncan, 204
Kerygma, 107 -9
Knapp, Steven, and Walter Benn Michaels: on intention and meaning, 175 -83, 185 n.3
intentionalist theory of, 173 -74, 299
nonintentionalist critique of, 173 -86.
See also Intentionalism
Kress, Ken, 306 -9
L
Langdell, Christopher Columbus: and legal theory, 274
influence on legal education, 274 -75
as dean of Harvard Law School, 274
Language: and law, 27 -31, 38 n.16
Barth's understanding of, 112
in Bultmann's hermeneutics, 111 -12
in Gadamer's hermeneutics, 111 , 285 -86
Lieber's conception of, 88 -91
as source of popular criticism of legal profession, 54
Lawyers: in nineteenth-century America, 271 -73, 278
popular criticism of, in England, 50
professional identity of, 278 , 280 -81
Legal argumentation: in sixteenth-century England, 63 -66.
See also Rhetoric
Legal education: critiques of, 281 -83, 290
and hermeneutics, 283 -89
history of, 274 -77
Legal positivism: definition of, 157
fallacy of, 170
postmodernism's rejection of, 148
Legal principle: and indeterminacy thesis, 162
limits of, 162
meaning of, 161 -62
postmodern elaboration of, 162
Legal realism: critique of, 276
role in legal education, 275 -76
Legitimacy: and indeterminacy, 202 -11
meaning of, 203
Levinas, Emmanuel: and Derrida on secularization, 163 -65
on the ethic of responsibility, 155 -56
on the necessity of a legal system, 161
on Western metaphysics, 152 -55
Levinson Sanford, 188 , 226 -27
Leyh, Gregory: criticism of, 314
on postmodern reason, 118
Liberal political theory: and legitimacy, 203 -10
Liberation theology, 115 -16, 125 n.36
Lieber, Francis: commitment to republicanism, 90 -91, 97 -98
contrasted with modern interpreters, 316
principles of interpretation, 91 -97
purpose of Hermeneutics,83 -84
M
MacIntyre, Alisdair, 116 -17, 120 -21
Mackie, John, 244
Mackinnon, Catharine, 32 -33
Madison, James, 85 -86
as critic of originalism, 141 -43
Marbury v. Madison,8 -9
Marshall, John, 8 -9
Meese, Edwin, III: as foundationalist, 220 , 235
as intentionalist, 183 -84, 256
Michaels, Walter Benn, and Steven Knapp. See Knapp, Steven, and Walter Benn Michaels
Montesquieu, 7
More, Thomas: scriptural interpretation, 47 -48
view of print technology, 46
N
New Critics, 196
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 12 -13
Neumann, Franz, 11 -12
Nonoriginalism: as justificatory theory, 250
meaning of, 246 -49
political implications of, 298
O
Originalism: as aspirational meaning, 301 -3
critique of, 131 -33, 136 , 137 -38
and Fourteenth Amendment, 253 -54, 298
intellectual and historical presuppositions of, 130 -33
Madison's criticisms of, 141 -43
political implications of, 298
P
Perpich et al. v. Department of Defense,139 -41
Perry, Michael J., 297 -303
Plato: and language, 28 -29
rule of law, 4 -5
Pole, Cardinal: criticism of legal profession, 50 -51
on nature of common law, 49 -50
Postmodernism, 147
Pragmatism: empirical implications of, 221 -22, 225 -26, 315
meaning of, 219 -20
as predominant in American legal culture, 225 -36
Praxis: Aristotle on, 103
centrality to interpretation, xiv
Gadamer's understanding of, 105 -7
in theological hermeneutics, 103 -121
Print technology: and English common law, 49
popularization of religious books, 46 -48
Prochow v. Prochow,229 -30
R
Ramism: contribution to development of national hermeneutic, 67
overview of, 63
as polemic, 67
sources of, 62
theory of rhetoric, 64
Ramus, Peter, xix n.11
and Scholasticism, 43 -45
Raz, Joseph, 209
Redemption: as demanding more than appeals to convention, 166
meaning of, 149
Repouille v. US ., 233
Republicanism, classical, 134
Rhetoric: elements of, 58 -59
as formal element of English legal education, 56 -58
Ricoeur, Paul: on authorial intention, 188
conception of biblical interpretation, 118 -21
Robinson, James: on definition of hermeneutics, 103
on reception of Barth's Romans,105
Rorty, Richard: and critique of foundationalism, 219 -20
on epistemology and hermeneutics, 3 -4
Rose, Gillian, 28
Rosen, Stanley: critique of, 17 -18
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 7
Rule of law, xii -xiii
formal definition of, 12
and Gadamerian hermeneutics, 13 -15
historical background of, 4 -12
S
Saint German, Christopher: debate with More, 48 -49
on scriptural doctrine, 51 -52
Sandel, Michael: on communitarianism, 273
on liberalism, 272
Schiciermacher, Friedrich D. E., 88 , 93
Schmitt, Carl, 11
Scholasticism: emergence of, 43 -45
and legal method, 59 -69
Schürmann, Rainer, 28
Science of politics: Lieber's interest in, 85 -87
Madison on, 86
Scientific interpretation: and Abraham Fraunce, xiii ,
Lieber's conception of, 83 -102
Scholasticism, 44 -45
Searle, John, 27
Sex-based discrimination, 253 -54
Sherman, Brad, xi
Singer, Joseph, 203 -4
Social science, and judicial research, 235 -36
Stahl, Friedrich Julius, 9 -10
Stone, Jerry, 304 -5
Story, Joseph: opinion of Lieber's Hermeneutics,98
relationship to Lieber, 85
T
Talon, Omar, 43 -44
Text: Constitution as, 245
meaning of, 178 -79, 188 -92, 242 -45
Thematization: meaning of, 162
as normative element in law, 163
Theological hermeneutics: compared to legal hermeneutics, 104
historical practice of, 104 -5
Theory, of interpretation: debate over descriptions of, 173 -74, 180 , 182 , 184 -85
relationship to interpretive practice, 241 , 249 -58, 297 -316
role in legal education, 276 -77
Tracy, David, 103 -4
Trial judges: and academic theories of law, 222 , 225 -26, 234 -36
and communication of judicial opinions, 231 -32
and politics, 232 -34
Tushnet, Mark: and originalism, 284 -85
on role of theory in interpretation, 255 -57
Tyndale, William, 47 -48
U
V
Verbal meaning theory, 189 -92
W
Wachterhauser, Brice, 107
Wasserstrom, Richard, 277 -78
Wellington, Harry, 269 -70
White, James Boyd: on the good lawyer, 282
on law as narrative, 220 -21
on reforming legal education, 283
Wink, Walter, 105
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 3
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