The legal form of thought

It's never too early to pre-order Legal Affinities: Studies in the Legal Form of Thought, which I co-edited with H. Jefferson Powell and Jack Sammons.   My Introduction to the volume is here.  The chapters of the book are inspired by -- and celebrate -- the work, spanning forty years, of University of Michigan law professor Joseph Vining.  As Mary Ann Glendon once wrote, "Joseph Vining finds surprising treasures hidden in lawyers' ways of knowing. . . .  He challenges with equal vigor the widely held notions that law can be reduced to processes and rules, or to power relations, or to meaningless signs and marks." Jurisprudence, administrative law, animal law, constitutional law, music, theology, St. Augustine, Judge Noonan in action -- they're all to be found, along with a whole lot more, in this volume.