Includes bibliographical references and index.

Legal canons : an introduction / J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson -- Empire or residue : competing visions of the contractual canon / Ian Ayres -- Canons of property talk, or, Blackstone's anxiety / Carol M. Rose -- Vanished from the first year : lost torts and deep structures in tort law / Martha Chamallas -- Criminal law / Robert Weisberg -- Teaching American civil procedure since 1779 / Paul D. Carrington -- Of Coase and the canon : reflections on law and economics / Daniel A. Farber -- Race relations law in the canon of legal academia / Randall Kennedy -- Recognizing race in the American legal canon / Fran Ansley -- Feminist canon / Katharine T. Bartlett -- Homosexuals, torts, and dangerous things / Katherine M. Franke -- The constitutional canon / Philip Bobbitt -- The canon in constitutional law / Suzanna Sherry -- Constitutional canons and constitutional thought / J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson.

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