CALENDAR OF EVENTS:  SPRING  2008

1. APRIL 2 (WED)

POSTMODERNISM & THE RULE OF LAW: A CRITIQUE

Daniel D. Barnhizer, MSU College of Law

APRIL 2, Wed., 7pm

Anspach 155

Free & Open to All

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The Rule of Law is increasingly under attack as indeterminate, incoherent, and unjustified in a post-modern, multicultural polity. This presentation will attempt to bridge the gap between the idealized and rational version of the Rule of Law presented by legal scholars and the political rhetoric that attempts to use the Rule of Law as a moral claim to legitimacy.  Drawing upon anthropological and psychological investigations into the nature of myth, Professor Barnhizer argues that the Rule of Law cannot be severed from the myths and narratives that support it.

Daniel Barhnizer is Associate Professor of Law at the Michigan State University College of Law.  He is the author of Visions of Contract Theory (Carolina Academic Press, 2007), Contracts: Cases and Theory of Contractual Obligation  (Thomson/West, 2008), and numerous articles.  He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1995.

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