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Understanding Legal Understanding: The Legal Subject and the Problem of Legal Coherence
Balkin, Jack M.
Balkin, Jack M.
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Abstract
This is an essay about the law's coherence. It is also an essay about the various forms of legal understanding, the contributions that we make to these forms of understanding, and the effects that legal understanding has upon us. There is an intimate relation between these matters. Coherence is more than a property of law; it is the result of a particular way of thinking about the law. The experience of coherence is an activity of understanding; it is something we do with and to the law, and through this activity, we ourselves are changed.