"After The Final No There Comes A Yes": A Law Teacher's Report
| dc.contributor.author | Radin, Margaret | |
| dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:35:13.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:55:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:55:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-03-25T06:05:46-07:00 | |
| dc.identifier | yjlh/vol2/iss2/3 | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 3947115 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/7420 | |
| dc.description.abstract | For 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.journaltitle | Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:55:44Z | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol2/iss2/3 | |
| dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=yjlh&unstamped=1 |
