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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
[Editorial Comment: This engaging dialogue between the two authors is a selection from a much larger piece including a wider exploration of Derrida's intellectual context and his current interlocutors in law and the social sciences in general. The editors of this Special Section hope to publish further parts of this conversation in a subequent issue of German Law Journal.]
1 As a method of communicating ideas in legal theory, the conversational format has been used before by legal scholars in legal journals. For articles written in a conversational format, see Peter Gabel and Duncan Kennedy, Roll Over Beethoven, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 1 (1984); Ellen C. DuBois, Mary C. Dunlap, Carol J. Gilligan, Catherine A. MacKinnon and Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow, Feminist Discourse, Moral Value, and the Law – A Conversation, 34 Buffalo Law Review 11 (1985).Google Scholar
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6 Generally, and among many others, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg, Literary Criticisms of Law, (2000); Dan Danielsen and Karen Engle, After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (1995); Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society) (Katherine Bartlett and Roseanne Kennedy eds., 1991). Others are: Jack Balkin, Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory, 96 Yale Law Journal 743 (1987); Jack Balkin, The Crystalline Structure of Legal Thought, Ed Morgan, Act of Blindness, State of Insight, 13 Boston University International Law Journal 1 (1995); Ed Morgan, The Other Death of International Law, 14 Leiden Journal of International Law 3 (2001); Clare Dalton, An Essay on the Deconstruction of Contract Doctrines, 94 Yale Law Journal 997 (1985); Stanley Fish, Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in the Law and in Literary Theory, 9 Critical Inquiry 201 (1982-1983); Duncan Kennedy, The Semiotics of Legal Argument, 42 Syracuse Law Review 75 (1991); Christine Desan, Expanding Legal Vocabulary: The Deconstruction and Defense of Law, 95 Yale Law Journal 969 (1986); Robert Cover, Violence and the Word, 95 Yale Law Journal 1601 (1985); Mary J. Coombs, Outsider Scholarship: The Law Review Stories, 63 University of Colorado Law Review 683 (1992); Kimberly Crenshaw, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Woman of Color, 43 Stanford Law Review 6 (1991); and the list could go on and on… Some people have cited David Kennedy, International Legal Structures (1987) and Martti Koskenniemi, From Apology to Utopia: the Structure of International Legal Argument (1989) as example of deconstructive practices. The tendency and difficulty of placing certain authors at either side of the structuralist – post-structuralist divide will remain a recurring issue, and not merely in this conversation.Google Scholar
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