James Boyd White

1.6k total citations
48 papers, 730 citations indexed

About

James Boyd White is a scholar working on Law, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James Boyd White has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 730 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Law, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in James Boyd White's work include Law in Society and Culture (12 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (7 papers) and Legal Education and Practice Innovations (6 papers). James Boyd White is often cited by papers focused on Law in Society and Culture (12 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (7 papers) and Legal Education and Practice Innovations (6 papers). James Boyd White collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ukraine and Israel. James Boyd White's co-authors include Allan C. Hutchinson, Sanford Levinson, David Kairys, Mary Ann Glendon, Steven Mailloux, Drucilla Cornell, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Richard A. Posner and Victoria Kahn and has published in prestigious journals such as The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review and Michigan Law Review.

In The Last Decade

James Boyd White

37 papers receiving 527 citations

Peers

James Boyd White
Peter Goodrich United States
A. D. Woozley United States
Alan Patten United States
Costas Douzinas United Kingdom
Robert M. Cover United States
Norman F. Cantor United States
Garry Wills United States
John Louis Lucaites United States
F.R. Ankersmit Netherlands
Peter Goodrich United States
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Fields of papers citing papers by James Boyd White

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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White, James Boyd. (2025). Doctrine in a Vacuum: Reflections on What a Law School Ought (and Ought Not) to Be. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. 18(18.2). 251–251.
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White, James Boyd. (2021). Keep Law Alive. 29–48. 1 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (2011). An Old-Fashioned View of the Nature of Law. Theoretical Inquiries in Law. 12(1). 381–402. 1 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (2010). The Cultural Background of 'The Legal Imagination'. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (2008). Establishing Relations between law and other forms of thought and language. Erasmus Law Review. 1(3). 3–22. 6 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (2007). Interview with James Boyd White. Michigan Law Review. 105(7). 1403–1419. 2 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1999). From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 10 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1998). Talking About Religion in the Language of the Law: Impossible But Necessary. eYLS (Yale Law School). 1 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1998). Talking About Religion In The Language Of The Law: Impossible But Necessary (Speech). Marquette law review. 81(2). 177. 3 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd, et al.. (1996). A Conversation between Milner Ball and James Boyd White. eYLS (Yale Law School). 8(2). 5. 1 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1993). Law Teachers' Writing. Michigan Law Review. 91(8). 1970–1970. 5 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1992). Translation as a Mode of Thought. Cornell law review/˜The œCornell law quarterly. 77(6). 1388–1593. 1 indexed citations
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Levinson, Sanford & James Boyd White. (1991). Conversing about Justice. The Yale Law Journal. 100(6). 1855–1855. 3 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1990). Justice as translation : an essay in cultural and legal criticism. Andalas University Repository (Andalas University). 114 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1989). What Can a Lawyer Learn from Literature. eYLS (Yale Law School). 1 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd, et al.. (1988). Law on a Darkling Plain. Harvard Law Review. 101(3). 702–702. 1 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1987). Constructing a Constitution: "Original Intention" in the Slave Cases. Maryland law review. 47(1). 239. 1 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1985). The legal imagination. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 30 indexed citations
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White, James Boyd. (1985). HERACLES' BOW: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 112 indexed citations
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Hutchinson, Allan C. & James Boyd White. (1984). From Cultural Construction to Historical Deconstruction. The Yale Law Journal. 94(1). 209–209. 9 indexed citations

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