Index

A

Abnormality, 140 , 157 -58

Adams, John, 37 n12

Adorno, Theodor W., 41 n96

Alienation, 36 , 89 , 95

Amendments, to U.S. Constitution:

First Amendment, 23 , 24 , 29 ;

Fifth Amendment, 67 n2;

Sixth Amendment, 67 n2;

Seventh Amendment, 67 n2;

Fourteenth Amendment, 30 , 36 n4

Antifederalism, 67 n2, 185 n7

Appeals courts, 2 -3;

and law/fact distinction, 42 -44, 48 -49, 61 -62, 68 n3

Aristotle, 96

Artificial intelligence, 8 -9, 10 n1, 12 n12

Attainder, 50 , 70 n37, 71 n40

Authority:

and canon formation, 3 ;

of Congress, 21 -22;

of constitutional law, 19 -20, 24 , 26 -28;

of democratic consent, 21 -23, 26 , 28 , 35 , 39 n72, 40 n79;

and historical interpretation, 19 -23;

and institutional division of labor, 61 ;

intellectual, 82 ;

judicial, 15 , 26 , 34 , 65 ;

of legislatures, 6 -7;

and legitimation of discourse, viii ;

and narrative construction, 65 ;

of national ethos, 23 , 26 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 32 -36, 39 n72;

and speaking for law, ix , 6 -7;

and stare decisis , 19 -20, 26 -28, 33 , 39 n72, 40 n74

Authorship:

accountability of, 114 , 115 , 118 -20;

and contracts, 4 , 112 ;

and copyright law, 110 -11, 132 nn2,6, 136 n68;

economic determination of, 110 , 114 ;

and epistemology, 109 , 114 -17, 128 -30;

and individualism, 109 -10, 113 , 114 -17;

and intent, 4 , 5 , 7 -10, 21 , 104 n20;

legal determination of, 109 , 110 , 111 -12, 113 , 117 ;

and literary privilege, 111 -30;

and literary style, 116 ;

political determination of, 113 , 114 , 129 , 131 ;

and poststructuralism, 109 ;

and public service, 126 , 129 -30;

and speaking for law, 6 -7.

See also Literary property; Publishing trade; Texts; Writing

Autonomy:

and boundary metaphor, 162 -63, 167 -72;

and individuality, 162 , 165 , 167 -68, 182 , 186 n14;

of legal discourse, viii , ix , xiii ;

political, 95 , 99 , 103 n14, 108 n64;

of self, x , xiv -xv, 95 , 99 , 168 -72, 186 n14

Averages, law of, 144 -46

Avery v. Everett , 52 -54, 59 -60, 75 n79

B

Banishment, 72 n47

Barfield, Owen, 12 n18

Baudin, P.C.L., 136 n83

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, 125 , 127

Benjamin, Jessica, 180

Bentham, Jeremy, 76 n88

Berkeley, George, 94

Bill of Rights, 18 , 22 , 174 , 185 n7

Bio-power, xi -xii, 138 -39, 158 -59

Body:

discipline of, xi , 141 ;

experience of, 170 , 178 -79, 188 n43

Bork, Robert, 33 -34, 41 n95

Boundary metaphor:

and autonomy, 162 -63, 167 -72;

and body, 170 , 178 -79;

and child development, 169 , 171 -76, 178 , 179 ;

and constitutional limits on democracy, 167 , 174 , 176 , 177 , 181 ;

experience structured by, 169 ;

and fluidity, 163 , 173 , 176 ;

and group dynamics, 173 -74, 176 ;

and legal discourse, viii , x , 171 , 173 , 181 , 184 ;

and privacy, 167 , 168 , 170 , 177 -78;

and property rights, 162 -63, 167 -68, 171 -72, 177 ;

relationships structured by, 171 , 175 , 178 ;

and selfhood, 167 -72, 176 , 178 -80, 182 ;

and sexuality, 169 -70, 188 n58;

transformation of, 181 -84

Bourdieu, Pierre, xiii , xvi n7

The Bramble Bush (Llewellyn), 68 n8

Brennan, William J., 16 -18, 22 -25, 28 , 32 , 37 n31

Briggs, Dorothy Corkville, 171 -72

Brown v. Board of Education , 30 , 34

Bureaucracy, 36

Burger, Warren, 17 , 21 , 25 , 28 , 29

Burke, Edmund, 103 n14

Burnet v. Coronado Oil and Gas Co. , 40 n75

C

Calvin, Jean, 139

Canguilhem, Georges, 139 , 153 , 157

Canon formation, 3

Cardozo, Benjamin, 47 -48

Catachresis, 74 n72

Causality, 143 -44, 147

Censorship, 111 , 115 , 117 , 120

Chénier, Marie-Joseph, 127 -28, 137 n91

Child development, 169 , 171 -76, 178 , 179

Cicero, 139

Civil death:

and civil rights, 51 , 72 n44;

and common law, 50 , 53 , 70 n37, 71 n41;

and forfeiture, 50 -54, 70 n37, 73 n56, 75 n79;

and inheritance, 50 -59, 66 , 71 nn38-40;

and law/fact distinction, 60 -61;

legal consequences of, 50 -52, 64 , 72 n44;

as legal fiction, 50 , 54 -59, 64 , 74 n73;

and marriage, 51 , 72 n42;

and statutory interpretation, 59 -61

Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), 82

Code de la librairie , 111

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 112

Collective, tension between individual and, 162 , 166 , 183

Comédie française, 122 -23, 124 , 125 -26

Common law:

and attainder, 50 , 70 n37;

and civil death, 50 , 53 , 71 n41;

and corruption of blood, 50 , 70 n37;

in England, 50 , 53 , 67 n1, 70 n37, 72 n45;

and forfeiture, 50 , 70 n37;

and lawsuits, 50 , 71 n41;

and property rights, 185 n8;

and wealth maximization, 105 n44

Communitarianism, 32 -33, 87 , 103 n11, 189 n63

Computers, 8 -9, 10 n1, 12 n12

Comte, Auguste, 143

Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Caritat, marquis de, 115 -24, 126 -30

Constitution, U.S.:

attainder in, 50 , 71 n40;

Bill of Rights in, 18 , 22 , 174 , 185 n7;

democratic decision-making limited by, 163 -67, 174 , 176 , 177 , 181 ;

Due Process Clause in, 25 ;

Equal Protection Clause in, 30 ;

Establishment Clause in, 13 -14, 15 -18, 20 , 24 ;

and property rights, 162 -67, 174 , 183 ;

provisions for juries in, 67 n2;

ratification of, 21 -23, 29 , 40 n77, 67 n2.

See also Amendments

Constitutional interpretation:

and authority of consent, 21 -23, 26 , 28 , 35 , 39 n72, 40 n79;

and authority of ethos, 23 , 26 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 32 -36, 39 n72;

and authority of law, 19 -20, 26 -28;

and counter-majoritarian difficulty, 15 , 25 , 34 , 41 n98;

doctrinal, 16 -17, 19 , 20 , 26 -28, 30 , 31 -32, 33 , 35 , 40 nn79,84;

and freedom of speech, 25 ;

and hermeneutics, 25 -26;

historical, 17 -23, 25 , 26 , 28 -30, 32 -35, 40 nn77,79;

and individualism, 25 , 26 , 33 ;

and judicial review, 14 -15, 20 -21, 163 , 166 , 174 ;

and liberalism, 21 , 25 ;

and metaphors, 32 -33;

methodology of, ix -x;

and noninterpretivism, 31 ;

and original intent, 17 -18, 21 -23, 25 ;

and property rights, 162 -67, 181 ;

and racial equality, 30 ;

responsive, 18 , 19 , 23 -26, 28 , 29 -35;

and right to privacy, 25 ;

and stare decisis , 16 -17, 19 , 26 -28, 33 , 39 n72, 40 nn74-75;

and superliberalism, 89 -90, 93 ;

and textualism, 14 , 36 n9

Constructive discharge, 59 , 75 n75

Context:

constraint of, 81 , 83 -86, 94 , 105 n47;

and meaning of language, 69 n13;

self-revision of, 90 , 93 , 94 -100

Contracts:

and authorship, 4 , 112 ;

and fraud, 49 ;

implied, 59 , 75 n77;

in superliberalism, 91 , 93

Conventionalism, 43 -44

Cook, Walter Wheeler, 68 n8

Cooper, Edward H., 67 n3

Copyright, xii , xiii , 110 -11, 132 nn2,6, 136 n68. See also Literary property

Corneille, Pierre, 128

Cornell, Drucilla, 80

Corruption of blood, 50 -51, 54 , 70 n37, 71 nn39-40

Counterfeit money, 72 n42

Counter-majoritarian difficulty, 15 , 25 , 34 , 41 n98

Courts:

appeals, 2 -3, 14 , 42 , 44 -49, 61 , 68 n3, 76 n82;

division of labor in, 42 , 61 , 67 n1;

institutional design of, 42 , 44 , 61 , 67 n1, 76 nn83,85;

law/fact distinction in, 42 , 44 , 61 -62, 67 nn1-3, 68 n7;

legal fictions in, 58 , 63 ;

trial, 14 , 42 , 61 , 67 n3

Critical Legal Studies, xiv -xv, 78 -79, 83 , 86 , 99 , 101

Critical Legal Studies Movement (Unger), 83 , 88 -97, 99 -101

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 81

Culture:

and autonomous self, x , 168 ;

and bodily experience, 179 ;

and constitutional interpretation, 30 ;

and individualism, 109 -10;

law as mediation of, vii -viii, ix , xii , 131 ;

and legal narrative, 63 , 65 ;

and political subjectivity, xii -xiv;

in public domain, 129 , 131 ;

role of authors in, 109 -11, 131

D

Daly, Mary, 188 n51

Darnton, Robert, 132 n7

Dascal, Marcelo, 37 n10

Death, in juridical systems, xi , 138

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen , 121

Deconstruction, xiv

De Man, Paul, 74 n72

Democracy:

and authority of consent, 21 -23, 26 , 28 , 35 , 39 n72, 40 n79;

and bourgeois revolution, 130 ;

constitutional limits on, 163 -67, 174 , 176 , 177 , 181 ;

and counter-majoritarian difficulty, 15 , 34 , 41 n98;

and judicial decision-making, 15 , 25 , 34 , 36 , 89 -90;

legitimized by debate, 13 ;

and public domain, 129 ;

and standardization, 152 , 160 ;

and superliberalism, 79 -80, 89 -90;

as threat to individuality, 166 -67;

as threat to property rights, 163 -67, 174 , 183 .

See also Social democracy

Democracy and Distrust (Ely), 89

Derrida, Jacques, 107 n63

Desbois, Henri, 110

Descartes, René, 81 , 95

Desertion, 64 -65, 76 n87

Diderot, Denis, 114 -17, 122 , 123 , 124 , 128 -30

Dinnerstein, Dorothy, 180

Disciplinary order, 140 -41, 152 -53

Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 140 -41, 153

Discourse:

and boundary metaphor, 163 ;

and contextual constraint, 84 -86;

and historicism, 85 ;

and possessive individualism, 109 ;

and social will, 100 .

See also Discourse, legal; Language; Metaphors

Discourse, legal:

autonomy of, viii , ix , xiii ;

and bio-power, xii ;

and boundary metaphor, viii , x , 171 , 173 , 181 , 184 ;

cultural mediation of, vii -viii, ix , xiii , 131 ;

and jurisgenesis, vii ;

and law/fact distinction, 55 -59;

and legal fictions, 55 -59, 63 -65;

legitimation of, viii , xii ;

and narrative construction, 62 -63;

ordinary description in, 55 , 73 n61;

and political action, viii , xiii ;

and social change, xi , 184

Divorce, 51 , 64 -65

Dred Scott decision, 15

Due Process Clause, in U.S. Constitution, 25

Durkheim, Emile, 157

Dworkin, Andrea, 169 -70, 179

Dworkin, Ronald, 47 -48, 68 n10, 69 n23, 107 n62

E

Ellerson v. Westcott , 66

Ely, John, 89 -90

Emeri, Jacques-André d', 118

Empiricism, 94

Encyclopédie , 114 , 116

England:

attainder in, 50 , 70 n37;

civil death statute in, 50 -53, 70 n37, 75 n79;

common law in, 50 , 53 , 67 n1, 70 n37, 72 n45;

forfeiture in, 50 -53, 70 n37, 71 nn38-40, 73 n56, 75 n79;

publishing trade in, 110 , 134 n32

Enlightenment, 114 -17, 128 , 130

Epistemology, and literary property, 109 , 114 -17, 128 -30

Equal Protection Clause, in U.S. Constitution, 30

Equal Rights Amendment, 28 -29

Essay on Human Understanding (Locke), 117

Essentialism, 159 , 188 n43

Establishment Clause, in U.S. Constitution, 13 -14, 15 -18, 20 , 24

Ethos, authority of, 23 , 26 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 32 -36, 39 n72

Ewald, François, viii , xi -xii, xiii

F

Facts:

and applicability of texts, 2 -3;

and cases of first impression, 53 , 73 n55;

and law/fact distinction, x , 42 -44, 54 -62, 67 n1;

and legal fictions, 54 -59;

in normative system, 155 -56;

statistical, 143 -44, 156 ;

textualization of, 44 ;

and value/fact distinction, 79 , 80 , 98 , 107 n62

False Necessity (Unger), 79 , 88 -94, 96 , 99

The Federalist Papers , 22

Felonies, and civil death, 50 , 54 , 70 nn37-38, 71 nn39,41

Feminism, 173 , 179 , 186 n22, 188 n43, 189 n63

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, xiv

Fictions, legal:

Bentham's critique of, 76 n88;

and civil death, 50 , 54 -59, 64 , 74 n73;

and law/fact distinction, 54 -59, 65 ;

and legal discourse, 55 -59, 63 -65;

as metaphors, 56 , 61 , 63 -65;

and the self, 94 -95

Finnis, John, 105 n45

Fish, Stanley, 47 , 48 , 69 n13, 85 , 105 n47

Forfeiture, 50 -54, 70 n37, 71 nn39-40, 73 n56, 75 n79

Formalism, xv , xvi n7, 83 , 100 , 104 n18

Foucault, Michel, ix , xiii -xiv, 81 , 84 , 153 ;

and authorship, xii , 109 -11, 113 , 115 , 130 ;

and bio-power, xi -xii, 138 -39, 158 -59;

and disciplinary order, 140 -41;

and juridical system, xi , 138 -39, 158 -59

Foundationalism, 83 , 94

Fragments sur la liberté de la presse (Condorcet), 115 , 119

France:

absolutism in, 111 -14, 117 ;

Burkean political critique of, 103 n14;

Enlightenment in, 114 -17, 130 ;

and French Revolution, xii , 110 -11, 117 -31, 160 ;

publishing trade in, 110 -31

Frank, Jerome, 68 n8

Freedom:

and boundary metaphor, 162 -63, 167 -68;

and integrated individuality, 182 ;

and power, xiv ;

of the press, 117 -21, 124 , 134 n25;

of speech, 25 , 183

Freud, Sigmund, 105 n46, 180

Freund, Paul, 21 -22

G

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, ix , 25

Galileo, 142

Geertz, Clifford, 69 n14

Gelbart, Nina Ratner, 134 n25

Germany:

publishing trade in, 110 , 134 nn31-32

Ginzburg, Jane C., 132 n6

Goffman, Erving, 168

Green, Leon, 67 n1

Greenblatt, Stephen, xiii

Griffin, Susan, 178 -79, 180 , 182

Gyn/Ecology (Daly), 188 n51

H

Habermas, Jürgen, 36

Hale, Robert L., 177

Harriman, Norman F., 148 , 151

Harris, Roy, 12 n12

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 78 , 83 , 94 , 95 , 99 , 104 n18, 106 n59

Hegemony, and constitutional interpretation, 30 , 40 n85

Heidegger, Martin, 80 , 82 , 102 n3, 107 n63, 108 nn63,67

Hein, Hilda, 188 n58

Hell, François, 123 , 125

Hemery, Joseph d', 133 n18

Héricourt, Louis d', 112 , 114

Hermeneutics, and constitutional interpretation, 25 -26

Herzog, Don, 40 n78

Hesse, Carla, viii , xi , xii , xiii

Hexter, J. H., 74 n69

Histoire de l'édition française , 110

Historicism, 81 , 85

History, and constitutional interpretation, 17 -23, 25 , 26 , 28 -29, 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 40 n77

History of Sexuality (Foucault), 138 , 153 , 158

Hobbes, Thomas, 33 -34

Homes, Oliver Wendell, 23 , 32

Horkheimer, Max, 41 n96

Hoy, David, 25

Hume, David, 87 , 94 , 106 n59

I

Individualism:

and authorship, 109 -10, 113 , 114 -17;

and constitutional interpretation, 25 , 26 , 33 .

See also Individuality; Self; Subjectivity

Individuality:

and autonomy, 162 , 165 , 167 -68, 182 , 186 n14;

and boundary metaphor, 167 -68;

and constructive relationships, 168 -69;

and disciplinary order, 141 ;

integrated, 182 ;

and normative system, 141 , 154 ;

and privacy, 186 n14;

tension between collective and, 162 , 166 , 183 ;

threatened by democracy, 166 -67.

See also Individualism; Self; Subjectivity

Inheritance:

and civil death, 50 -59, 66 , 71 nn38-40;

legal interpretation of, 45 -48, 59 -60;

and life insurance, 49 , 70 n36;

and marriage, 51 ;

and murder, 45 -46, 49 , 52 -54, 59 , 66

Institutions:

and bio-power, 138 ;

and cultural mediation, vii ;

design of legal, x , 42 , 44 , 61 , 67 n1, 76 nn83,85;

and normative system, 138 , 141 ;

and power relations, xvi n17;

and social insurance, 147 -48;

and social plasticity, 93

Instrumentalism:

legal autonomy denied by, xvi n7;

and property rights, 121 , 130 ;

and rationality, 36 ;

and self-expression, 95 -96;

and social plasticity, 91 -93

Insurance:

and causality, 143 -44, 147 ;

and inheritance law, 49 , 70 n36;

as normative system, 141 -42, 152 -53, 159 ;

and risk, 141 -42, 146 -47;

and state organization, 147 -48, 153 ;

and statistical probability, 142 -44

Intent:

and authorship, 4 , 5 , 7 -10, 21 , 104 n20;

and constitutional interpretation, 17 -18, 21 -23, 25 ;

and law/fact distinction, 43 ;

legislative, 45 -46, 59 -60, 69 n18

Intentionalism, 44

Interpretation:

and appellate opinion, 2 -3;

and contextual constraint, 84 , 88 ;

of contracts, 4 -5;

and conventionalism, 43 -44;

and conversation between reader and text, 25 ;

of delimited situations, 2 , 3 ;

and identification of texts, 1 -3;

and intentionalism, 44 ;

and interpretivism, 44 ;

and law/fact distinction, 42 -44, 48 -49, 60 -62, 67 n2, 68 nn8-10, 69 n14;

and literalism, 44 ;

and narrative construction, 65 ;

and parasitism, 81 ;

and phenomenology, 14 , 36 n7;

statutory, 5 , 45 -48, 59 -61, 67 n2, 69 n23;

and structuralism, 44 ;

superseded by normative system, 156 ;

and textualism, 14 , 36 n9;

of torts, 4 ;

of wills, 45 -46.

See also Constitutional interpretation

Intersubjectivity, 154

Isaacs, Nathan, 43

J

James, William, 180

Jefferson, Thomas, 37 n12

Johnson, Mark, 169 , 178 -79

Judiciary:

anti-democratic decisionmaking in, 15 , 26 , 34 , 89 -90;

in appeals courts, 42 , 44 , 76 n82;

authority of, 15 , 26 , 34 , 65 ;

and cases of first impression, 53 , 73 n55;

and constitutional interpretation, 14 -15, 20 -21, 163 ;

and counter-majoritarian difficulty, 15 ;

and judge-centeredness, 5 ;

and judicial review, 14 -15, 20 -21, 163 , 166 , 174 ;

juries as constraint on, 42 ;

and law/fact distinction, x , 42 -44, 60 -63, 67 nn1-2, 68 nn7-8,10;

legal fictions used by, 59 -60, 63 , 65 ;

and narrative construction, 63 , 65 ;

and politics of context, 85 ;

and statutory

Judiciary

interpretation, 44 -47, 59 -60, 67 n2, 69 nn18,23;

in trial courts, 42

Juridical system, xi , 138 -39, 141 , 158 -59

Juries:

and antifederalism, 67 n2;

as constraint on judiciary, 42 ;

cultural background of, 62 -63;

and law/fact distinction, x , 42 , 61 -63, 67 nn1-2, 68 n7, 76 n82;

and narrative construction, 62 -63, 75 n82, 76 n83

Jurisgenesis, vii

K

Kant, Immanuel, 24 , 81 , 95 , 99 , 103 n11, 107 n63, 142 , 143 , 157 , 184

Keats, John, 91

Keller, Catherine, 178 -82

Kennedy, Duncan, 86

Knapp, Steven, 1 , 104 n20

Knowledge and Politics (Unger), 78 -83, 87 -88, 90 , 100

Kripke, Saul, 103 n11

L

Lafayette, Marie-Joseph de, 118

LaFontaine, Jean de, 128

LaHarpe, Jean François de, 122 , 126

Lakanal, Joseph, 137 n91

Lakoff, George, 169 , 178 -79

Lameth, Charles de, 118 , 120

Language:

and authorship, 4 ;

catachresis in, 74 n72;

and computers, 8 -9;

constraint of, 86 ;

context of, 69 n13, 86 ;

and legal fictions, 55 -59;

as normative system, 149 -52, 156 ;

and semantics, 8 , 55 -59;

and social will, 100 ;

and syntax, 8 , 151 , 156 .

See also Discourse; Metaphors

Lanthenas, François, 135 n47

Lauter, Estella, 181 -82, 184

LeBreton, André-François, 114

Le Chapelier, Isaac-René-Guy, 126 , 137 n92

Lefort, Claude, 13 , 36

Legality:

political, 81 -82, 83 , 86 -88;

of syntax, 8

Legislatures:

authority of, 6 -7;

and constitutional amendments, 29 ;

and politics of context, 85 ;

religion in, 13 -14;

and statutory interpretation, 47 , 69 n18

Lemon v. Kurtzman , 16 -17, 20

Lettre historique et politique sur le commerce de la librairie (Diderot), 114 -15

Lewis, C. S., 180

Libel, 115 , 117 , 120 -21, 125 , 128

Liberalism:

and bourgeois democracy, 130 ;

and constitutional interpretation, 21 , 25 ;

and fact/value distinction, 107 n62;

and self as property, 89 .

See also Superliberalism

Libertarianism, 106 n58, 124

Linguet, Simon-Nicolas-Henri, 115

Literalism, 44

Literary property:

and absolutism, 111 -14, 130 ;

and accountability, 114 , 115 , 118 -20;

and copyright, xii , xiii , 110 -11, 132 nn2,6, 136 n68;

and economic determination of authorship, 110 , 114 ;

and epistemology, 109 , 114 -17, 128 -30;

free distribution of, 117 , 120 , 121 -22, 124 , 129 ;

and individualism, 109 -10, 113 , 114 -17;

and legal determination of authorship, 109 , 110 , 111 -12, 113 , 117 ;

limited ownership of, 119 -25, 128 -29;

and literary privilege, 111 -29;

monopolization of, 112 -13, 115 , 117 -18, 122 , 124 , 125 ;

and natural rights, 110 , 119 , 121 , 122 , 130 ;

pirating of, 118 , 127 ;

and political determination of authorship, 113 , 114 , 129 , 131 ;

private ownership of, 109 , 114 -17, 123 , 130 ;

and public domain, 113 , 126 , 128 -29, 130 -31;

social ownership of, 116 -17, 119 , 124 , 126 , 128 -29;

theatrical works as, 122 , 125 -27

Llewellyn, Karl, 24 , 40 n77, 49 , 68 n8

Locke, John, 23 , 110 , 112 , 117

Louis XIV, 112

Loustallot, Elysée, 121

Louvet, Jean-Baptiste, 127

M

MacCormick, Neil, 68 n9

Mackie, John, 96 -97, 99

MacKinnon, Catherine, 189 n61

Malesherbes, Chrétien-Guillaume Lamoignon de, 133 n18

Marbury v. Madison , 15 , 19

Marin, François, 133 n18

Marriage:

and civil death, 50 -51, 72 n42;

and inheritance, 51

Marshall, John, 15 , 19 , 37 n12

Marsh v. Chambers , 13 -14, 15 -18, 19 -25, 32

Marx, Karl, xiv , 78 , 81 , 87 , 95

Meese, Edwin, 21

Mémoire sur les propriétés et privilèges exclusifs de la librairie (Linguet), 115

Mercure de France (periodical), 123

Metaphors:

bodily, 178 -79;

and constitutional interpretation, 32 -33;

experience structured by, 169 ;

and legal fictions, 56 , 61 , 63 -65, 75 n73;

and politics of legality, 81 -82;

superseded by normative system, 156 .

See also Boundary metaphor

Metaphysics, 80 , 81 , 83 , 99 , 102 n3

Michaels, Walter Benn, 1 , 104 n20

Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de, 126

Modernism:

and normative system, 139 , 141 , 160 ;

and superliberalism, 79 -81, 93 , 99 , 100

Molière, 120

Moniteur (periodical), 127

Murder:

and inheritance law, 45 -46, 49 , 52 -54, 59 , 66 ;

and legal discourse, 56 -57, 73 n62, 74 n68;

and right of dower, 70 n31;

second-degree, 73 n49

N

Nagel, Thomas, 107 n62

Narrative:

constructed by juries, 62 -63, 75 n82, 76 n83;

and culture, 63 , 65 ;

and legal authority, 65

Nedelsky, Jennifer, viii , x -xi, xii , xv

Negative capability, 91 , 101

Nemours, Dupont de, 118

Neurath, Otto, 82

New York Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Armstrong , 70 n36

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 23 , 79 , 87 , 94 , 95 , 97 , 99 , 107 n63, 108 n67

Nihilism, 79 , 83 , 89 , 96 , 97

Nominalism, 7 , 144

Nonet, Philippe, 24

Noninterpretivism, 31

Normative system:

abnormality in, 140 , 157 -58;

and bio-power, xi -xii, 138 -39, 158 -59;

and disciplinary order, xi -xii, 140 -41, 152 -53;

and exercise of power, 153 -55, 159 ;

facticity in, 155 -56;

individuals in, 141 , 154 ;

insurance as, 141 -42, 152 -53, 159 ;

interpretation superseded by, 156 ;

language as, 149 -52, 156 ;

and measurement techniques, 151 , 152 , 159 -60;

and modernism, 139 , 141 , 160 ;

and normalization process, 148 -52;

opposed to juridical system, xi , 138 -39, 141 , 158 -59;

polarity of, xii , 157 ;

politics as, 157 -58, 160 ;

and positivism, xii , 156 , 158 ;

proliferation of legislation in, 138 ;

relativity of, xii , 156 -57;

and standardization techniques, xii , 148 -50, 152 , 159 ;

and state organization, 147 -48, 153 , 155 , 158 ;

and statistical probability, 142 -44, 156 , 158 ;

values superseded by, 154 -56, 157

Nozick, Robert, 106 n58

O

Objectivism, 116 -17

Of Woman Born (Rich), 186 n14

Owens v. Owens , 49 , 70 n31

P

Panckouke, Charles-Joseph, 123 -24, 130

Passion (Unger), 79 , 83 , 85 , 86 , 89

Phenomenology, 14 , 36 n7

Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein), 86

Philosophy of Right (Hegel), 83 , 106 n59

Pitkin, Hanna, 23

Plasticity, social, 80 , 91 -93

Plasticity into Power (Unger), 91

Plato, 90 , 105 n42

Plessy v. Ferguson , 30

Politics:

and agonism of power, xiv -xv;

and authors' rights, 114 , 117 -31;

and autonomy, 95 , 99 , 103 n14, 108 n64;

and bio-power, 139 ;

and civil death, 51 ;

and constitutional interpretation, 19 , 33 , 163 -67;

and contextual constraint, 84 -86, 88 ;

and determination of authorship, 114 , 129 , 131 ;

in French Revolution, xii , 118 -20, 135 n45;

and legal discourse, viii , xiii ;

and legality, 81 -82, 83 , 86 -88;

and nihilism, 79 ;

as normative system,

Politics

157-58, 160 ;

and power balance between judges and juries, 42 ;

and rhetoric, 100 -101, 107 n63;

and self-limiting government, 176 ;

and self-revising context, 95 -100;

and social goals, 95 -99;

and standardization, 152 , 160 ;

and subjectivity, xiii .

See also Democracy; Liberalism; Social democracy; Superliberalism

Positivism, 5 , 156 , 158

Posner, Richard, 105 n44

Post, Robert, 168 , 186 n14

Postmodernism, xiv -xv, 33 , 80

Poststructuralism, 109

Pound, Roscoe, 46 -47, 48 , 69 n18

Powell, Jeff, 106 n49

Power:

and bio-power, 138 -39, 158 -59;

and boundary metaphor, 177 ;

and contextual constraint, 84 ;

and freedom, xiv ;

and institutions, xvi n17;

and juridical systems, 138 -39, 158 -59;

monarchical, 138 -39, 159 ;

Nietzschean will to, 108 n63;

and normative system, 138 -39, 153 -54, 158 -59;

and separative self, 180 -81;

Pragmatism, 37 n10, 158

Prayer, legislative, 13 -14, 15 -18, 19 , 36

Precedents, and law/fact distinction, 42 -43

Privacy, 167 , 168 , 170 , 177 -78, 186 n14

Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism (Nedelsky), 162

Probability, statistical, 142 -44, 156

Proceduralism, 79 , 89 , 91 , 99 , 108 n64

Property, private:

and autonomous self, 162 -63, 171 -72;

and boundary metaphor, 162 -63, 167 -68, 171 -72, 177 ;

and common law, 185 n8;

and epistemology, 109 , 114 -17;

forfeiture of, 50 -59, 66 , 71 nn38-40, 73 n56, 75 n79;

and legal discourse, 56 -57;

and liberal self, 89 ;

and natural rights, 110 , 119 , 121 , 122 , 130 ;

quasiderelict, 59 , 75 n78;

and separative self, 167 , 180 -81;

threatened by democracy, 163 -67, 174 , 183 ;

and U.S. Constitution, 162 -67, 181 , 183 .

See also Inheritance; Literary property

Public domain, 113 , 126 , 128 -29, 130 -31

Publishing trade:

and absolutism, 111 -14;

and accountability, 118 -20;

and censorship, 111 , 115 , 117 , 120 ;

and copyright, xii , xiii , 110 -11;

and Enlightenment, 114 -17, 128 ;

and freedom of the press, 117 -21, 124 , 134 n25;

and French Revolution, 110 -11, 117 -31;

and libel, 115 , 117 -18, 120 -21, 125 , 128 ;

and literary privilege, 111 -29;

monopolization of, 112 -13, 115 , 117 -18, 122 , 124 , 125 ;

pirating in, 118 , 127 ;

and sedition, 115 , 117 -18, 120 -21, 125 , 128 ;

and theatrical works, 122 , 125 -27.

See also Literary property

Q

Quetelet, Alphonse, 144 -46

R

Racine, Jean, 120 , 128 , 137 n83

Rationality:

instrumental, 36 ;

normative, 158 ;

probabilistic, 142

Rawls, John, 79 , 88 , 105 n38, 185 n10

Realism, 43 , 67 n1, 68 n9, 89 , 146

Reboul, Eugène, 147

Reich, Charles, 167

Religion:

and constitutional interpretation, 13 -14, 15 -18, 19 , 36 ;

and normative system, 139 ;

and superliberalism, 79 , 82 , 99

Rich, Adrienne, 186 n14

Riggs v. Palmer , 44 -66

Rights:

of authors, 114 , 117 -31;

and boundary metaphor, 162 , 167 ;

civil, 51 , 72 n44, 166 -67;

natural, 110 , 119 , 121 , 122 , 130 ;

political, 51 , 72 n44, 166 -67;

property, 121 , 130 , 162 -63, 184

Ripstein, Arthur, 187 n36

Risk, in insurance system, 141 -42, 146 -47

Ritter, Joachim, 139

Roberts, Owen, 14

Robespierre, Maximilien, 99

Roe v. Wade , 30 , 40 n84

Roman law, 69 n19

Romme, Gilbert, 127

Rorty, Richard, 83

Rose, Mark, xii , 110 , 131 , 134 nn21, 32

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 120 , 128 , 130 -31

Royer, Jean-François, 118

Rule of law, vii , 9 , 16 , 19 , 27 -28, 35 , 39 n72, 185 n8

S

Sandel, Michael, 185 n10

Sartine, Antoine de, 114 , 133 n18

Say, Jean-Baptiste, 143

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, xiv

Scheppele, Kim Lane, viii , xii

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, xiv

Scientific revolution, 142

Searle, John, 61 n13

Sedaine, Michel Jean, 137 n83

Sedition, 115 , 117 , 120 -21, 125 , 128

Seidman, Peter, 74 n73

Self:

autonomy of, x , xiv -xv, 95 , 99 , 168 -72, 186 n14;

and boundary metaphor, 167 -72, 176 ;

and constructive relationships, 168 -69;

contextual revision by, 93 , 94 -100;

integrated, 184 ;

and liberalism, 89 ;

and political power, xiii -xiv;

and self-expression, 94 -96, 98 ;

separative, xi , 167 , 171 -72, 178 -80, 183 -84;

and social goals, 95 -98;

and social solidarity, 86 .

See also Individualism; Individuality; Subjectivity

Selznick, Philip, 24 , 32 -33

Semantics, 8 , 55 -59

Sexism, 179

Sexual harassment, 75 n75

Sexuality, and boundary metaphor, 169 -70, 188 n58

Shils, Edward, 186 n14

Sieyès, Emmanuel, 117 -28, 130

Simmel, Georg, 168

Simpson, A. W.B., 43 , 74 n66

Situation:

legal interpretation of, 2 , 3 ;

pragmatic meaning of, 37 n10

Skepticism, 79 , 81 , 89 -90, 93 , 96 , 97 , 103 n11

Social democracy, 78 -79

Social structure, 80 -81, 88 , 91 , 97 , 186 n14

Social Theory (Unger), 82 -85, 89 -92, 94 , 97

Solidarity, social, 83 , 86 -88, 91 -92

Standardization, xii , 148 -49, 152 , 159

Stare decisis , 16 -17, 19 , 26 -28, 33 , 39 n72, 40 nn74-75

Starhawk, 173 -77

State:

and individual autonomy, 167 , 169 ;

as normative system, 153 , 155 , 158 ;

and property rights, 162 -67, 177 ;

and social insurance, 147 -48, 153 ;

and subjectivity, 78

Statistics, 142 -44, 156 , 158

Statutes:

constitutionality of, 14 -15;

interpretation of, 5 , 45 -48, 59 -60

Stith, Kate, 75 n82

Stoicism, 139

Stone, Martin, viii , xv

Structuralism, 44

Subjectivity:

and epistemology, 117 ;

and political power, xiii -xiv, 99 ;

and self-expression, 94 -95;

and the state, 78 ;

and transcendence, 108 n67.

See also Individualism; Individuality; Self

Summer, L. W., 106 n59

Superliberalism:

and constitutional interpretation, 89 -90;

and contextual constraint, 81 , 83 -86, 88 , 94 ;

and contextual revision, 90 , 93 , 94 -100;

as critique of liberalism, 78 -81, 89 ;

and formalism, 83 , 100 , 104 n18;

instrumentalism in, 91 -93, 95 -96;

legality in, 81 -82, 83 , 86 -88;

metaphysics in, 80 , 81 , 83 , 99 , 102 n3;

and nihilism, 79 , 83 , 89 , 96 , 97 ;

political program of, 78 , 80 , 83 , 89 -90, 98 -100;

proceduralism in, 79 , 89 , 91 , 99 ;

rhetoric of, 100 -101, 107 n63;

role of God in, 79 , 82 , 99 , 100 ;

and self-expression, 94 -97;

and skepticism, 79 , 81 , 89 -90, 93 , 96 , 97 ;

and social context, 80 -81, 83 -86, 90 , 93 ;

and social goals, 95 -99;

and social plasticity, 80 , 91 -93;

and social totality, 80 -82;

and solidarity, 83 , 86 -88, 91 -92

Supreme Court, U.S.:

and antidemocratic decision making, 15 , 26 , 34 , 89 ;

and constitutional constraint, 31 ;

and legislative prayer, 14 , 15 -18, 19 ;

and racial equality, 30

T

Texts:

application of, 2 -3, 25 -26;

authorship of, 4 , 6 , 104 n20;

and canon formation, 3 ;

and constitutional law, 21 ;

context of, 69 n13, 84 , 88 ;

conversation with, 25 ;

cultural mediation of, vii ;

identification of, 1 -3, 104 n20;

and intertextuality, ix ;

and law/fact distinction, 43 -44, 60 ;

and meaning as reception, 131 ;

phenomenological reading of, 36 n7;

and textualism, 14 , 36 n9

Thayer, James Bradley, 43

Theology:

and subjectivity, 108 n67;

and superliberalism, 79 , 82 , 99 , 100

A Theory of Justice (Rawls), 79 , 88

Thoreau, Henry David, 82

Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 94 , 107 n63

Tolstoy, Leo, 3

Torts, 4 , 68 n7, 168 , 186 n14

Totality, social, 80 -82

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein), 103 n11

Treason, 50 , 71 n39

Trespass, 75 n74

Trial courts:

division of labor in, 42 , 61 ;

and law/fact distinction, 42 , 61 -62, 67 n3;

and legislative prayer, 14 ;

role of judiciary in, 42

Tribe, Laurence, 167 -68, 185 n12

Trusts, 66

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, 115

Tushnet, Mark, 70 n38

Tussman, Joseph, 23

U

Ulpian, 69 n19

Unger, Roberto:

and Critical Legal Studies, xiv -xv, 78 -79, 83 , 86 , 99 , 101 ;

and critique of liberalism, 78 -81, 89 ;

metaphysics of, 80 , 81 , 83 , 99 , 102 n3;

and nihilism, 79 , 83 , 89 , 96 , 97 ;

political program of, 78 , 80 , 83 , 89 -90, 98 -100;

political rhetoric of, 100 -101, 107 n63;

theology of, xiv , 79 , 82 , 99 , 100 ;

works of:

Critical Legal Studies Movement , 83 , 88 -97, 99 -101;

False Necessity , 79 , 88 -94, 96 , 99 ;

Knowledge and Politics , 78 -83, 87 -88, 90 , 100 ;

Passion , 79 , 83 , 85 , 86 , 89 ;

Plasticity into Power , 91 ;

Social Theory , 82 -85, 89 -92, 94 , 97

Uniform Probate Code, 66

V

Values:

cultural mediation of, vii ;

and fact/value distinction, 79 , 80 , 98 , 107 n62;

fundamental, 89 ;

and legal discourse, vii -viii;

and nihilism, 79 , 89 , 96 ;

and self-revising context, 95 -97;

superseded by normative system, 154 -56, 157

Viala, Alain, 132 n7

Vining, Joseph, vii , viii , ix

Vitruvius, 139

Voltaire, 120 , 128 , 130 -31

W

Walden (Thoreau), 82

Walzer, Michael, 81

Weber, Max, 5

West, Robin, 186 n19

Whitehead, Alfred North, 179 , 180

Whitman, Walt, 83

Williams, Raymond, vii

Wills:

and civil death, 51 -53, 66 ;

interpretation of, 45 -48, 59 , 66 ;

and legal discourse, 56 -57;

and life insurance, 49 ;

and right of dower, 70 n31

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 74 n70, 86 , 103 n11, 107 n63

Women:

and abortion rights, 39 n74;

and privacy, 186 n14;

and sexual boundaries, 169 -70, 186 n19

Women as Mythmakers (Lauter), 181 -82

Woodmansee, Martha, xii , 110 , 131 , 134 nn21, 31 , 32

Woolf, Virginia, 8 -9

Wright v. Wright , 51

Writing:

distinguished from reading, 5 -6;

expressive, 7 -8;

manipulative, 7

Wroblewski, Jerzy, 37 n10

Y

Your Child's Self-Esteem (Briggs), 171 -72