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dc.contributor.authorRadin, Margaret
dc.date2021-11-25T13:35:13.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T11:55:44Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T11:55:44Z
dc.date.issued2013-03-25T06:05:46-07:00
dc.identifieryjlh/vol2/iss2/3
dc.identifier.contextkey3947115
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/7420
dc.description.abstractFor the past five or six years I have included six poems by Wallace Stevens in the readings for a required first-year law course. They are the only poems I teach in the course. Thomas Grey's thoughtful essay raises a seemingly unlikely question. Should Stevens's poetry be considered part of the legal canon? Do his poems possess legal authority? That in answer some kind of a "yes" or "maybe" might seriously be considered may at first surprise even the Stevens fans among legal academics. Yet why do I have the firm intuition that the poems are useful, relevant, important for law students to know? Why do they strike me as somehow deeply law-related? Professor Grey's question about poetry and legal authority prompts me to reflect upon and try to clarify my intuitions about law and Wallace Stevens. I share these reflections because those whose interest is aroused by Professor Grey's question might possibly be interested also in one personal and partial answer: how one teacher has found Stevens essential in one practical legal context, the training of law students in the ways of legal thought. So I offer this report from practice.
dc.title"After The Final No There Comes A Yes": A Law Teacher's Report
dc.source.journaltitleYale Journal of Law & the Humanities
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T11:55:44Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol2/iss2/3
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=yjlh&unstamped=1


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