Minding the Law

Anthony G. Amsterdam

Jerome Bruner

    1. Invitation to a Journey

    2. On Categories

    3. Categorizing at the Supreme Court Missouri v. Jenkins and Michael H. v. Gerald D.

    4. On Narrative

    5. Narratives at Court Prigg v. Pennsylvania and Freeman v. Pitts

    6. On Rhetorics

    7. The Rhetorics of Death McCleskey v. Kemp

    8. On the Dialectic of Culture

    9. Race, the Court, and America's Dialectic From Plessy through Brown to Pitts and Jenkins

    10. Reflections on a Voyage

    Appendix: Analysis of Nouns and Verbs in the Prigg, Pitts, and Brown Opinions

    Notes

    Table of Cases

    Index

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Anthony G. Amsterdam is Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and has been a MacArthur Fellow.

Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University and the author of many books, including Acts of Meaning; On Knowing; The Process of Education; and Toward a Theory of Instruction (all published by Harvard).