Introduction to Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought

Brennan, Patrick  McKinley

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Introduction to Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought

Patrick McKinley Brennan

Villanova University School of Law

August 1, 2012

Carolina Academic Press 2012, Forthcoming
Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3004

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This is my Introduction to Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (forthcoming 2012) (co-edited with H. Jefferson Powell and Jack Sammons), a volume of essays dedicated to exploring the work of Joseph Vining. The Introduction introduces Vining’s phenomenology of law and surveys the themes and topics developed by the volume’s eight authors: Joseph Vining, Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Rev. John McCausland, H. Jefferson Powell, Jack Sammons, Steve Smith, James Boyd White, and Patrick Brennan.

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Keywords: authority, authoritarian, persons, minds, force, love, God, legislation, grace, music, nihilism, the good

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Date posted: September 2, 2012

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Brennan, Patrick McKinley , Introduction to Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (August 1, 2012). Carolina Academic Press 2012, Forthcoming; Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3004. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2138340

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