Kenji Yoshino
The City and the Poet
114 Yale L.J. 1835 (2005) Although it is a contemporary of law and economics, law and literature has never secured widespread uptake in the legal academy. In this Article, Professor Yoshino explains the relative anemia of the discipline and prescribes a cure. Law has an incentive to distance itself from literature, which is tainted by its perceived falsity, irrationality, and...
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111 Yale L.J. 769 (2002) In this article, Professor Yoshino considers how the gay civil rights movement might enright the American civil rights paradigm, which he takes to be predicated on the paradigm classifications of race and sex. He posits that gays may be able to contribute a more robust theory of the relationship between assimilation and discrimination, a theory...