Law, Literature, and the Problems of Interdisciplinarity

Bibliographic Data

ID5791518
AuthorsJane B Baron (0009-0006-2729-6130, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume108
Issue5
Pages1059-1059
Publication date1999-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Yale Law Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0044-0094 • E-ISSN: 1939-8611
PublisherThe Yale Law Journal Company (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/797370
OpenAlexW3123880554
LanguageEN
Citations received23

There is probably someone somewhere who would be willing to say that law is just rules and the techniques of rule manipulation, but in the academy, if not outside of it, this view has long been out of fashion. 1 Today, a description of law as "a dazzlingly complex array of social, cultural, linguistic, and normative practices" 2 presents itself not as a revolutionary insight but as a form of common sense.Part of what has educated us to understand law as a phenomenon richer than the sum of its rules is the teachings of the various "law ands" that have grown up over the years-law and economics, law and history, law and society, and the like.In methodologically diverse ways, "law and" scholarship has consistently encouraged consideration of law's dependence on and connection to other t Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law.I thank Richard Baron, Julia Epstein, and Rick Greenstein for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this Essay

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