Conversing About Justice

Like many other members of the legal academy,' I have long admired, and profited from, James Boyd White's work on the intersections of law and literature. Drawing from his literary commitments2 the importance of relying on narratives rather than on abstract propositional utterances for the notions that constitute our culture and provide our norms, he was at the forefront of those who emphasized the necessity to pay attention to "the reality of the experience of other people, and [to the] importance of their stories, told in their words." 3