1. Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of Disaster, trans. Ann Smock (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 144.

2. Franz Kafka, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, trans. Willa and Edwin Muir (New York: Schocken, 1948), 191-227.

3. Robert Cover, "Violence and the Word," Yale Law Journal 95 (1986): 1601.

4. For an excellent discussion as to why Grundlosigkeit should not be identified with Unsinnlosigkeit, see Richard J. Bernstein, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983).

5. Drucilla Cornell, "Institutionalization of Meaning, Recollective Imagination, and the Potential for Transformation in Legal Interpretation," Pennsylvania Law Review 136 (1988): 1135-1229.

6. Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969), 38.

7. Ibid., 21.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid., 199.

10. Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than Being; or, Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1981), 139.

11. Ibid.

12. Blanchot, Writing of Disaster, 2.

13. Drucilla Cornell, "Post-Structuralism, the Ethical Relation, and the Law," Cardozo Law Review 9 (1988): 1587.

14. See G. Peller, "The Metaphysics of American Law," California Law Review 73 (1985): 1164-70.

15. Duncan Kennedy, "Form and Substance in Private Adjudication," Harvard Law Review 89 (1976): 1685.

16. H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law (New York: Clarendon, 1961).

17. Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978).

18. Levinas, Otherwise than Being, 198.

19. Ibid., 15.

20. Jacques Derrida, The Postcard, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 446.

21. M. Minow, "Foreword to the Supreme Court 1986 Term: Justice Engendered," Harvard Law Review 101 (1987): 10.

22. Ibid., 90-96.

23. Robert Cover, "Foreword to the Supreme Court 1982 Term: Nomos and Narrative," Harvard Law Review 97 (1985): 16.

24. Ibid.

25. Levinas, Otherwise than Being, 158.

26. Ibid., 157.

27. Cover, "Foreword," 4-5.

28. Levinas, Otherwise than Being, 165.

29. M. Stallman, Was ist Sakularisieurung (Tuhngen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1960), 33.

30. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gyatri Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), 112.

31. Cover, "Foreword," 44.

32. Ibid., 9.

33. Jacques Derrida, "Des tours de Babel," in Difference in Translation, ed. Joseph F. Graham (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985), 115.

34. Cover, "Violence and the Word," 1628.

35. Ibid., 1607.

36. Ibid., 1605.

37. Derrida, "Des tours de Babel," 135.

38. Cover, "Foreword," 34.

39. Jacques Derrida, "Memories for Paul de Man," in Acts, trans. Eduardo Cadava (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).