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The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (YJLH) is a biannual student-run law review founded in 1988 at the Yale Law School. Conceived by Jim Tourtelott, Joe Sommer, and Eva Saks,[1] the Journal debuted as a panel on “Interpreting Property: The New Dialogue of Law and Literary Interpretation” at the Modern Language Association’s 1988 Convention in New Orleans featuring Janet Halley, Carol Rose, Jeff Nunokawa, and Patricia Williams.[2][3] The first issue of the Journal was published in the fall of 1988.[4] Since then, articles in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities have been cited by courts, including the Supreme Court of New Jersey[5] and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.[6] It has also received mention in The New York Times,[7][8] The Wall Street Journal,[9] and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.[10] YJLH publishes scholarship involving both the law and the humanities, broadly defined. It has previously published scholarship relating law or legal theory to literature and literary theory, history, theology and religious studies, philosophy, the visual arts, cultural theory, and a wide range of critical theories. Additionally, the Journal has published symposia on topics spanning: “Dissent in the Renaissance,”[11][12] “The Sacred Body in Law and Literature,”[13][14][15] “Sexuality, Cultural Tradition, and the Law,”[16] Representation and Ideology in the Public Sphere,[17] psychoanalysis,[18] the cultural study of law,[19] postmodernism,[20] living originalism,[21][22] and comparative legal history.[23]

Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
YJLH_Logo
DisciplineLaw
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History1988–present
FrequencyBiannual
Yes
Standard abbreviations
BluebookYale J.L. & Human.
ISO 4Yale J. Law & Humanit.
Indexing
ISSN1041-6374
OCLC no.60616201
Links

With an interdisciplinary spirit from the outset, the Journal’s editorial advisory board has included “distinguished scholars from literary studies, history, anthropology, art history, political theory, and law, all engaged in interdisciplinary analyses of culture.”[24] The current board members are: Bruce Ackerman (Law and Political Science, Yale University), Houston A. Baker, Jr. (English and African American & Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University), Peter Brooks (Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values, Princeton University), the Honorable Guido Calabresi (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Law, Yale University), Nancy F. Cott (History, Harvard University), Natalie Zemon Davis (History, University of Toronto), Lawrence Douglas (Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College), Stanley Fish (Cardozo Law School), Owen M. Fiss (Law, Yale University), Paul D. Gewirtz (Law, Yale University), Robert W. Gordon (Law, Stanford University), Janet Halley (Law, Harvard University), Hendrik Hartog (History, Princeton University), Anthony T. Kronman (Law, Yale University), Sanford V. Levinson (Government and Law, University of Texas), George E. Marcus (Anthropology, University of California, Irvine), Martha L. Minow (Law, Harvard University), Martha C. Nussbaum (Law and Ethics, University of Chicago), Judith Resnik (Law, Yale University), Carol M. Rose (Law, University of Arizona), Austin Sarat (Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College), Richard H. Weisberg (Law, Cardozo Law School), Robert Weisberg (Law, Stanford University), Cornel West (Divinity and African American Studies, Harvard University), James Boyd White (Law and English, University of Michigan), Bryan J. Wolf (Art & Art History, Stanford University).[25]

Vision and Purpose

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The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities provides a forum for developing the humanist’s vision of the law as constitutive of human living and self-understanding, despite its sometimes violent and coercive effects.[26][27] Such a forum aspires to restore the human voice in the law, particularly in the face of the fragmentation resulting from specialization,[28][29] on the one hand, and the elision between technical expertise and the methodology of Law and Economics, on the other. Rather than promote an ideological project, the Journal has enlisted the resources of the humanities to restore the human element in the law. This element is foundational to the deliberative approach to self-government as the basis of a democratic republic.[30]

The Journal’s founders rejected the notion, somewhat assumed in the legal academy by the chronological experience of a liberal arts degree preceding law school admission, that the humanities are therefore a place to acquire the instruments that the law will now “put to some real use."[26] Yet while interdisciplinarity in the Journal is not a mere tool, it is also not the afterthought of a “law and…” approach, supplementing the law with something external to it.[31] Instead, the Journal sees the disciplines of human meaning as undergirded by the more or less intelligent, reasonable, and responsible human activity of discovering and creating meaning.

Eschewing accounts of the law that prescind from its human import, the Journal emerged from the experience of “a legal culture implicated in the creation of symbols and structures which provide meaning in everyday life.”[24] Reflecting on the way that socio-cultural narratives conspicuously “shape legal meaning and empower legal norms” involves more than merely identifying images of the law outside its main institutions.[24] Rather, it demands a cultural analysis to clarify and assess its interaction with and creation of the cultural forms through which it engages us.[24] Nonetheless, the Journal has resisted shifting from a "Law and Humanities" endeavor to a strictly "cultural studies of law" approach.[32]

Reflecting Yale Law School’s interdisciplinary and scholarly approach to legal education, the Journal emerged in contestation of the late-twentieth-century arrival of economics as “the queen of the social sciences, or for that matter of the university.”[33] The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities rejected the prevailing model of “Law and Economics” and its insistence on individualism, the rational choice model of personhood, instrumental and technocratic approaches, and the supposition that the market mechanism can order social relations in lieu of value judgments.[34]

In response, the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities has sought to preserve the golden thread of “the experience of wonder or amazement with which all real thinking starts—[t]o keep this experience alive without lapsing into a mystical obscurantism on the one hand, or a self-deluding scientism on the other.”[35] The kind of individual and communal liberation such a project hopes to realize, then, is indexed to the humanistic project of “Know Thyself,” rather than to any specific political agenda. It aspires to the professional ideal that being a lawyer is an aspect of being human, so that being a good lawyer should “turn on how good a person you are.”[36][37]

Notable Authors and Articles[38]

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Authors

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Yale Law School Faculty

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Articles

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  • Austin Sarat, The Law Is All Over: Power, Resistance and the Legal Consciousness of the Welfare Poor, 2 Yale J.L. & Human. 343 (1990).
  • Carol M. Rose, Property as Storytelling: Perspectives from Game Theory, Narrative Theory, Feminist Theory, 2 Yale J.L. & Human. 37 (1990).
  • Naomi Mezey, Law as Culture, 13 Yale J.L. & Human. 35 (2001).
  • Francisco Valdes, Unpacking Hetero-Patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender & (and) Sexual Orientation to Its Origins, 8 Yale J.L. & Human. 161 (1996).
  • Robert A. Ferguson, The Judicial Opinion as Literary Genre, 2 Yale J.L. & Human. 201 (1990).
  • Katherine M. Franke, Becoming a Citizen: Reconstruction Era Regulation of African American Marriages, 11 Yale J.L. & Human. 251 (1999).
  • Leti Volpp, Blaming Culture for Bad Behavior, 12 Yale J.L. & Human. 89 (2000).
  • Polly J. Price, Natural Law and Birthright Citizenship in Calvin's Case (1608), 9 Yale J.L. & Human. 73 (1997).
  • Janet Halley, What is Family Law: A Genealogy Part I, 23 Yale J.L. & Human. 1 (2011).
  • Jennifer L. Mnookin, The Image of Truth: Photographic Evidence and the Power of Analogy, 10 Yale J.L. & Human. 1 (1998).

Notable Alumni[40]

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Academia

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  • Lawrence Douglas — Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College
  • Janet Halley — Law, Harvard Law School
  • Rogan Kersh — Distinguished University Professor, Politics & International Affairs, Wake Forest University
  • Roderick M. Hills, Jr. — New York University Law School
  • Douglas S. Reed — Government, Georgetown University
  • María E. Montoya — History, New York University
  • Anne E. Fernald — English, Fordham University
  • Douglas Mao — English, Johns Hopkins University
  • Jonathan Zasloff — UCLA Law
  • Sarah Harding — Dean, Dalhousie Law
  • Steven Wilf — University of Connecticut Law
  • Laura Dickinson — George Washington Law
  • Michael O'Hear — Marquette Law
  • Kevin M. Stack — Vanderbilt Law
  • Deven R. Desai — Georgia Tech Law
  • Risa Goluboff — Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law
  • Richard A. Primus — Michigan Law
  • Susan Schmeiser — University of Connecticut Law
  • John Fabian Witt — Yale Law School and History, Yale University
  • Laura I. Appleman — Willamette Law
  • Mark Weiner — Rutgers Law
  • Jonathan D.M. Fine — Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
  • Wendie Schneider — History, Iowa State University
  • Carlton F.W. Larson — UC Davis Law
  • Robert Sloane — Boston University Law
  • Benjamin Leff — American University Law
  • Barton Beebe — New York University Law
  • Ravit Reichman — English, Brown University
  • Clifford J. Rosky — University of Utah Law
  • Jed Handelsman Shugerman — Boston University Law
  • Melissa J. Ganz — English, Marquette University
  • Serena Mayeri — University of Pennsylvania Law
  • Gabriel Acevedo — Sociology and Honors Program, Quinnipiac University
  • Simon Stern — University of Toronto Law
  • Ethan J. Leib — Fordham Law
  • Patricio Boyer — Humanities and Hispanic Literature, Davidson College
  • Tobias Boes — German and Russian Languages and Literature, Notre Dame University
  • Sara Sternberg — Duke University Law
  • Cary Franklin — UCLA Law
  • Cynthia Merrill — UCLA Law
  • Aziz Rana — Boston College Law
  • Hans Leaman — Dean and History, Sattler College
  • Jedidiah Kroncke — Hong Kong University Law
  • Joseph Fishkin — UCLA Law
  • Megan Glick — American Studies, Wesleyan
  • Gwendolyn Bradford — Philosophy, Rice University
  • Deborah Dinner — Cornell Law
  • Dorota Heneghan — Spanish, World Languages, and Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University
  • John Mangin — Urban Planning, New York University
  • Jessica Bulman-Pozen — Columbia University Law
  • Sophia Lee — Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law
  • Monica Eppinger — Saint Louis University Law
  • Richard Herbst — Film, Notre Dame University
  • R. Owen Williams — Higher ed. leader and former president of Transylvania University
  • Tina Rulli — Philosophy, UC Davis
  • Julia Simon-Kerr — University of Connecticut Law
  • Jeanne-Marie Jackson — English, Johns Hopkins University
  • Brookes Brown — Philosophy, University of Toronto
  • Margot Kaminski — University of Colorado Law
  • Jeremy Kessler — Columbia University Law
  • Thomas P. Schmidt — Columbia University Law
  • Luke Norris — Richmond University Law
  • Kalyani Ramnath — History, Columbia University
  • Allison Tait — Richmond University Law
  • Kevin Escudero — American Studies, Brown University
  • Janny Leung — English and Law, Wilfrid Laurier University and Hong Kong University
  • Kevin P. Tobia — Philosophy and Law, Georgetown University
  • Anya Adair — Law and Humanities, Hong Kong University
  • José Argueta Funes — UC Berkeley Law
  • Caroline Lieffers — History, The King's University
  • Sarath Pillai — South Asian History, Southern Methodist University
  • Miryam Segal — Liberal Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
  • Jacob Schriner-Briggs — Chicago-Kent Law
  • Alexander Zhang — Emory Law
  • Greg Antill — Columbia Law
  • Emilia Jocelyn-Holt — Santiago (Chile) University Law
  • Eric Stephen — Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida
  • Jan-Baptiste Lemaire — Columbia Law Center for Climate Change Law
  • Mark Firmani — Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College
  • Isaiah Ogren — Harvard Law School (Rappaport Fellow)

Business

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  • Nell DeVane — General Counsel of ESPN

Judiciary

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  • Katie A. Gummer — Judge, New Jersey Superior Court
  • Vera Mary Scanlon — Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York
  • Rachel E. Hershfang — Associate Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court
  • Maya Sabina Guerra — Judge, Travis County Texas District Court
  • Gia Kim — Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court
  • Evan Young — Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
  • Bessie Dewar — Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
  • Embry J. Kidd — Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Authors

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  • Steph Cha — Crime fiction novelist
  • David Hopen — Novelist

Politics & Government

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References

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  1. ^ Halley, Janet (1998). "Notes from the Editorial Advisory Board". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 10 (2): 389 – via HeinOnline.
  2. ^ "Program of the 1988 Convention of the Modern Language Association of America". PMLA. 103 (6): 1035. Nov 27–30, 1988. JSTOR 462324.
  3. ^ Halley, Janet (1998). "Notes from the Editorial Advisory Board". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 10 (2): 390 – via HeinOnline.
  4. ^ "Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Vol. 1.1". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 1 (1): i. 1988 – via HeinOnline.
  5. ^ State v. Reed, 133 N.J. 237, 257 (1993)
  6. ^ City of Philadelphia v. Sessions, 309 F.Supp. 289, 294 (2018)
  7. ^ Liptak, Adam (October 21, 2024). "A Writer Sees Leniency in the Supreme Court's Approach to Public Corruption". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
  8. ^ Wills, Garry (April 15, 2011). "Shakespeare Subpoenaed". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
  9. ^ Editorial Board (July 19, 2017). "Betsy DeVos's Due Process". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
  10. ^ McFarlane, Clive (November 16, 2015). "Due process overdue in drug cases". Telegram & Gazette. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
  11. ^ "Justice and Its Discontents: Dissent in the Renaissance". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 5 (1): 113–186. 1993 – via HeinOnline.
  12. ^ Charles, Eleanor (February 16, 1992). "CONNECTICUT GUIDE". The New York Times. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  13. ^ "The Sacred Body in Law and Literature". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 7 (1): 75–242. 1995 – via HeinOnline.
  14. ^ See also "Fifty Years of The Legal Imagination: Articles in Honor of James Boyd White". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 35 (2): 181–401. 2024 – via HeinOnline.
  15. ^ See also "Rethinking Robert Cover's Nomos and Narrative". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 17 (1): 1–150. 2005 – via HeinOnline.
  16. ^ "Intersections: Sexuality, Cultural Tradition, and the Law". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 8 (1): 93–262. 1996 – via HeinOnline.
  17. ^ "Representing and Contesting Ideologies of the Public Spheres". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 24 (1): 3–474. 2012 – via HeinOnline.
  18. ^ "Anne C. Dailey, Law and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 31 (1): 3–271. 2020 – via HeinOnline.
  19. ^ "Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 13 (1): 3–174. 2001 – via HeinOnline.
  20. ^ "Human Values in a Postmodern World". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 6 (2): 195–248. 1994 – via HeinOnline.
  21. ^ "Living Originalism". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 25 (1): 1–148. 2013 – via HeinOnline.
  22. ^ See also "Against Constitutional Originalism". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 36. April 11, 2025.
  23. ^ "Comparative Legal History: A Conference on Themes in the Work of James Q. Whitman". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 35 (3): 401–665. 2024 – via HeinOnline.
  24. ^ a b c d "Note from the Editors". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanties. 1 (1): vi. 1988 – via HeinOnline.
  25. ^ Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 34 (1). 2023.
  26. ^ a b "Note from the Editors". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanties. 1 (1): v. 1988 – via HeinOnline.
  27. ^ Kahn, Paul (2001). "Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Study of Law". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 13 (1): 141 – via HeinOnline.
  28. ^ Getman, Julius (1988). "Voices". Texas Law Review. 66 (3): 577–88 – via HeinOnline.
  29. ^ Lawrence, Frederick (1988). "Human Voice and Democratic Political Culture: The Crisis of True Professionalism". Texas Law Review. 66 (3): 641–45 – via HeinOnline.
  30. ^ Lawrence, Frederick (1988). "Human Voice and Democratic Political Culture: The Crisis of True Professionalism". Texas Law Review. 66 (3): 643 – via HeinOnline.
  31. ^ Brennan, Patrick McKinley (2003). "Meaning's Edge, Love's Priority". Michigan Law Review. 101 (6): 2061. doi:10.2307/3595344. JSTOR 3595344 – via HeinOnline.
  32. ^ Fenster, Mark; Schneider, Wendie; Weiner, Mark S. (1998). "Note from the Editors: Tenth Anniversary Symposium- New Directions in Law & the Humanities: Introductions". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 10 (2): 384 – via HeinOnline.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  33. ^ Fiss, Owen M. (1988). "The Challenge Ahead". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanties. 1 (1): ix – via HeinOnline.
  34. ^ Fiss, Owen M. (1988). "The Challenge Ahead". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanties. 1 (1): ix-x – via HeinOnline
  35. ^ Kronman, Anthony T. (1998). "Note from the Dean for 10th Anniversary". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 10 (2): 387 – via HeinOnline.
  36. ^ Kahan, Dan M. (May 25, 2006). "Yale Law School Commencement Remarks" (PDF). OpenYLS. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
  37. ^ Lonergan, S.J., Bernard J.F. (1976). "Mission and the Spirit". A Third Collection. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press (published 1985). p. 21. ISBN 0-8091-2650-8.
  38. ^ "Archive: Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities". OpenYLS Archive: Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  39. ^ Cardozo, Benjamin N. (2023). "Some Notes on George Eliot". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 34 (1): 226–45 – via HeinOnline.
  40. ^ "Masthead". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
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