Slippered Feet Aboard the African Queen
Milner Ball's essay, and all of his work, ring with hope; that is, both with his clear-sighted, scholar's interest in finding and telling the truth, and with the optimism that comes of his belief that chaos has been overcome. His thought is an inspiration; and his lyrical prose is, for all...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1985
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1985, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 193-201 |
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| Summary: | Milner Ball's essay, and all of his work, ring with hope; that is, both with his clear-sighted, scholar's interest in finding and telling the truth, and with the optimism that comes of his belief that chaos has been overcome. His thought is an inspiration; and his lyrical prose is, for all of its somber truth, a joy to read.In the spirit he brings to his work, I suggest that the Hebraic religious tradition contains a richer theological basis for the claim that law is a medium (or, perhaps more modestly, a conversation) than he seems to allow for; and I suggest that there is perhaps more hope to be found in human relationships in a lawyer's professional life than there is in the institutional forms provided by the government—more in the law office than in the administrative apparatus that Professor Ball prefers to invoke for examples of medium.With those suggestions out of the way, I want to argue that Professor Ball's characterization of property ownership as "the apparatus of bulwark law" is premature. I want to suggest that the bulwark-like difficulties in property law are less the essence of ownership than a perversion of ownership. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051354 |