ABSTRACT This special section of Law and Humanities focuses on the 45th anniversary edition of James Boyd White’s The Legal Imagination: a book that was ground-breaking when it first appeared in 1973 (since it is generally credited as having initiated the ‘law and literature’ movement) and that remains a hugely important resource today. White’s approach to legal scholarship and education - reading law’s instruments, its rhetoric and concepts alongside, above, below and in-between literary works and criticism - opened up a new world of intellectual possibilities. Realization of these possibilities has come in the form of the growth and flourishing, not only of law and literature but also numerous other intersections of law and the humanities that owe a debt to White. This symposium brings together seven eminent scholars (and readers of The Legal Imagination) to reflect on the contribution that White’s book made and continues to make to law and humanities education and scholarship. In the order that their essays appear, the authors for this symposium are Elizabeth Mertz, Robert P. Burns, Matthew Anderson, Jack L. Sammons, Thomas D. Eisele, Linda L. Berger and Linda Ross Meyer.

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四十五年的法律与文学：对詹姆斯·博伊德·怀特的《法律想象力》及其对法律和人文科学的影响的思考

摘要《法律与人文》这一特殊部分的重点是詹姆士·博伊德·怀特（James Boyd White）的《法律想象力》（The Legal Imagination）45周年纪念版：该书于1973年首次问世时是开创性的（因为该书被普遍认为是发起了“法律与文学”）运动），这在今天仍然是非常重要的资源。怀特的法律学术和教育方法-阅读法律的工具，其修辞和概念以及文学作品和批评的上下，中间以及中间-开辟了一个崭新的知识可能性世界。实现这些可能性的方式不仅是法律和文学的发展和繁荣，而且是法律和人文欠债怀特的众多其他交叉领域。本次研讨会汇集了七位杰出的学者（以及《法律想象力》的读者）来反思怀特的书对并将继续为法律和人文教育与学术做出的贡献。按照他们的论文发表的顺序，本次研讨会的作者是伊丽莎白·梅茨（Elizabeth Mertz），罗伯特·伯恩斯（Robert P. Burns），马修·安德森（Matthew Anderson），杰克·L·萨蒙斯（Thomas D.Eisele），琳达·L·伯格和琳达·罗斯·迈耶（Linda Ross Meyer）。