Volume 2 Number 1

Contributors' Notes - vii

Articles
Sally Engle Merry
The Discourse of Mediation and the Power of Naming - 1
Carol M. Rose
Property as Storytelling: Perspectives from Game Theory, Narrative Theory, Feminist Theory - 37
Brook Thomas
Stanley Fish and the Uses of Baseball: The Return of the Natural - 59
Symposium: Language, Law, and Compulsion
Introduction and Acknowledgements - 89
Swearing Attachment
Lief H. Carter
Oath Bran; or, Law, Politics, and Allegiance - 93
Cass R. Sunstein
Unity and Plurality: The Case of Compulsory Oaths - 101
Sanford Levinson
Taking Oaths Seriously: A Comment on Carter and Sunstein - 113
Constitutional Narratives
Elaine Scarry
War and the Social Contract: The Right to Bear Arms - 119
Peter Brooks
The Rhetoric of Constitutional Narratives: A Response to Elaine Scarry - 129
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Constitutions and Cultural Studies - 133
True Confessions
Louis Michael Seidman
Rubashov's Question: Self-Incrimination and the Problem of Coerced Preferences - 149
Robert A. Burt
Loving Big Brother: Comments on Seidman, Police Interrogation, and the Fifth Amendment - 181
Anita Sokolsky
The Case of the Juridical Junkie: Perry Mason and the Dilemma of Confession - 189
Rhetorics of the Judicial Opinion
Robert A. Ferguson
The Judicial Opinion as Literary Genre - 201
Judith Resnik
Constructing the Canon - 221