Why the Canon Should Be Expanded to Include the Insular Cases and the Saga of American Expansionism

摘要: All disciplines are constituted by their canonsthat series of "set texts" that comprises the core materials any given academic area. As Jack Balkin and I have written elsewhere, debates about canon rife in many contemporary disciplines, most notably, perhaps (at least terms public attention), English American literature, but certainly including legal studies. One can ask very generally what all law students should be exposed to, or one more limited question as to studying constitutional expected read. That is, constitute law? Even this way putting may too broad, though, for we argue cannot begin constructing a set