Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 23, 2004|Volume 32, Number 27

Symposium will re-examine seminal essay
by late law professor Robert Cover

A symposium titled "Rethinking Nomos and Narrative: Marking 20 Years Since Robert Cover's 'Nomos and Narrative'" will be held at Yale on Sunday, April 25.

The program is sponsored by the Yale Program in Judaic Studies, with the assistance of the William & Miriam Horowitz Fund, and the Law School.

Until his death in 1986, Robert Cover taught at the Law School, where he was Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History.

According to the organizers, Cover's essay "Nomos and Narrative" was "of seminal importance in describing how communities with their own legal meanings might use their particular stories about law to carve out autonomous legal space separate from state-based legal authority and from the uses of court-sanctioned violence to uphold that authority. Biblical and Jewish legal traditions were especially important for Cover, and he draws upon these as a model for legal interpretation. ...

"Twenty years after the publication of this essay, it is possible to take stock of Cover's major contribution to how we think about law in a liberal society, and how the practice of Jewish legal hermeneutics connects to broader jurisprudential theories," add the organizers.

The symposium will take place 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2:15-5:15 p.m. in Rm. 129 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. It is open to the public. The program for the symposium and information about meal reservations are available at www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/JudaicStudies/nomos/.

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