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Repairing The World Through Law: A Reflection On Robert Cover's Social Activism

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  • Robert M. Cover, “The Supreme Court, 1982 Term—Forward: Nomos and Narrative,” 97 Harvard Law Review A, (1983).
  • Robert M. Cover, “Violence and the Word,” 95 Yale Law Journal 1601, 1604 (1986).
  • Both documents are on file with the author.
  • Quoted in Barbara A. Black, “Tribute to Robert Cover,” 96 Yale Law Journal 1703, 1704 (1987).
  • See Steve Wizner, “Tribute to Robert Cover,” 96 Yak Law Journal 1701 (1987); Aviam Soifer, “Preface,” Narrative, Violence and the Law: The Essays of Robert Cover, M. Minow, M. Ryan, and A. Sarat, eds. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), ix–x.
  • “…Bob Cover was an active spirit…he knew where he stood. He stood with justice. He stood with virtue. He stood with Local 34 when it demanded that the University recognize clerical and technical workers as full members of this community. He stood with us, his students, when we took a stance to protest the University's investments in South Africa.” Tanina Rostain, “Tribute to Robert Cover,” 96 Yale Law Journal 1713, 1716.
  • Robert M. Cover, “Proposal for a National Law Student Conference for Social Change,” at 1–2.
  • Id., at 2.
  • Robert M. Cover, “Proposal for a Post-Graduate Internship Program,” at 1.
  • Id., at 1–2.
  • See note 4, supra.
  • Robert M. Cover, “Obligation: A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order,” 5 Journal Law and Religion 65 (1988).
  • Id., at
  • Joseph Lukinsky, “Law in Education: A Reminiscence with Some Footnotes to Robert Cover's Nomos and Narrative,” 96 Yale Law Journal 1836 (1987).
  • See, e.g., Cover, “Nomos and Narrative,” supra note 1 at 11–13, 15, 20–24, 41; Id., “Violence and the Word,” supra note 2; Id., “Folktales of Justice,” 14 Capital University Law Review 179, 183–197 (1985); Id., “A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order,” supra note 11.
  • Cover, “A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order,” supra note 11.
  • See, e.g., Exodus 2:20–26; Deuteronomy 16:20; Isaiah 58:2–9; Amos 5:21–24; Micah 6: 6–8; Jeremiah 7:1–7; Psalms 82; Proverbs 21:3 and 31:8–9.
  • Cover, “A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order,” supra note 11.
  • Id., at 66–67.
  • Id., at 73–74.
  • Robert M. Cover, “Bringing the Messiah Through Law: A Case Study,” NOMOS XXX: Religion, Morality and the Law, R, Pennock and J. Chapman eds. (New York: New York University Press, 1988); “The Folktales of Justice,” 187–195.
  • Robert M. Cover, “The Bonds of Constitutional Interpretation: Of the Word, the Deed, and the Role,” 20 Georgia Law Review 815 (1986).
  • Id., at 816.
  • Cover, “Violence and the Word,” supra note 2.
  • Cover, “The Folktales of Justice,” supra note 14 at 180.
  • Cover, “The Bonds of Constitutional Interpretation,” supra note 21 at 815.
  • Milner Ball, The Word and the Law (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p.3.
  • Roben Cover, Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), pp.1–7.
  • Quoted in Cover, “Nomos and Narrative,” supra note 1 at 11.
  • Cover, “The Bonds of Constitutional Interpretation,” supra note 21 at 820–821.
  • Id., at 833.
  • Cover, “Nomos and Narrative,” supra note 1 at 40.
  • See, e.g., Cover, “Nomos and Narrative,” supra note 1 at 9; “Folktales of Justice,” supra note 14 at 181–182.
  • Suzanne Last Stone, “In Pursuit of the Counter-Text: The Turn to the Jewish Legal Model in Contemporary Legal Thought,” 106 Harvard Law Review 813, 893 (1993).
  • Cover, “Folktales of Justice,” supra note 14 at 181.
  • Id., at 204.
  • Id., at 197.
  • Id., at 196–197.
  • Rostain, supra note 5 at 1713–1714.
  • See note 4, supra.
  • “Education needs to create worlds for students to experience, rather than to reduce such worlds to the learning of abstract concepts or information.” Lukinsky, supra note 13 at 1855.
  • Cover, “Nomos and Narrative,” supra note 1 at 85–96.
  • Quoted in Rostain, supra note 30 at 1716.

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