- See, e.g., Eades, Review, in Bowker's Legal Publishing Preview, Sept./Oct., 1989, at 93; see also, Ayoub, “New Scholarly Journals,” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 8, 1989 at AIO.
- For an example of rhetorical legerdemain, see White's recent entry into the debate on Billy Budd, Sailor in the midst of an otherwise fine review of Richard Posner's Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation. White first asserts that there is no “intrinsic” evidence for the proposition that Melville was knowledgeable about British naval law and wished his readers to notice Captain Vere's legal errors; then, after several paragraphs, White turns around and states that, on second reading, one does And such evidence right there in the text. We are left to wonder why the reader would not have noticed such central and explicit references on first reading. See White, 102 Harvard L. Rev. 2014, 2041 (1989).
- See W. Wolfgang Holdheim, Der Justizirrtum als literarische Problematik (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1969).
- See, e.g., Holdheim, “Jacques Derrida's Apologia, 15 Critical Inquiry 784 (1989)
Law & Literature
Volume 1, 1989 - Issue 2