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James Boyd White

16 works· latest 2025· 1 institutionscluster: provisional

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Citations1,429

Works here16

Most cited in this library

When Words Lose Their Meaning1984 · 350 citations
Justice as translation : an essay in cultural and legal criticism1990 · 249 citations
HERACLES' BOW: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law1985 · 232 citations
Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life1985 · 147 citations
Justice as translation1990 · 108 citations

Works

16 shown

Doctrine in a Vacuum: Reflections on What a Law School Ought (and Ought Not) to Be

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform·2025·1 author·Open access

25citations

Legal Knowledge

Harvard Law Review·2002·1 author

21citations

From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education

·1999·1 author

15citations

What's an Opinion for?

The University of Chicago Law Review·1995·1 author

13citations

Acts of Hope

University of Chicago Press eBooks·1994·1 author·book

41citations

Justice as translation : an essay in cultural and legal criticism

·1990·1 author

249citations

Justice as translation

·1990·1 author·book

108citations

Rhetoric and the Law

diacritics·1989·10 authors

23citations

HERACLES' BOW: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law

·1985·1 author

232citations

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life

The University of Chicago Law Review·1985·1 author·Open access

147citations

The legal imagination

·1985·1 author

43citations

From Cultural Construction to Historical Deconstruction

The Yale Law Journal·1984·2 authors·Open access

16citations

The Judicial Opinion and the Poem: Ways of Reading, Ways of Life

Michigan Law Review·1984·1 author

14citations

When Words Lose Their Meaning

University of Chicago Press eBooks·1984·1 author·book

350citations

When words lose their meaning

·1983·1 author·book

81citations

The Invisible Discourse of the Law: Reflections on Legal Literacy and General Education

bepress Legal Repository·1983·1 author·Open access

51citations