Reviews for Novel Judgements: Legal Theory as Fiction (Discourses of Law)

The average rating for Novel Judgements: Legal Theory as Fiction (Discourses of Law) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-30 00:00:00 Jessy Smith There's a ton of essays here, all of varying quality*. Some are downright boring, while others are really worth reading. A lengthy introduction introduces the volume, which provides an overview of certain aspects of Mill's life as well as the writings contained in the volume itself. The appendix also contains some of Harriet Taylor's writings (Mill's eventual wife), and they're interesting in their own right. *The main work here, The Subjection of Women, was released as a stand alone book, so I will be reading and reviewing it separately, and, as such, my rating of this collection does not reflect the contents of that essay.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-04 00:00:00 Susan Peterson The blurb here says it is non-technical and while true that still requires a great deal of initial definition of terms. A good thing in that it taught me some things. This has a 'structuralist' approach in that it builds on verifiable data while you get all the reasons for inclusion of this or that piece and thereby how it effects the view of this or that model etc. But if one looks for answers here you're not likely to find them. Koester can verify historically that the first non-Jewish Christians for example were probably found in Antioch. That the first kind of Christian gatherings for worship were (also) probably dinner feasts. And this for a long time until probably Polycarp's time when people started going to places he had visited to view letters of his and other Christian writings. Before this very little is known with any certainty. So disappointing that way. As a read it is pure academic sifting and re-sifting of data. Sadly not a detective's crime novel. More like an expert forensic autopsy report. But I'm of the opinion that the more numerous the perspectives we can grasp the clearer our eventual understanding.