#robert cover

[wellconstructedsentences]

The relation between legal interpretation and the infliction of pain remains operative even in the most routine of legal acts.

Violence and the Word by Robert Cover

[mcclellandalex]

[kelseyridge13]

No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning.  For every constitution there is an epic

Robert Cover

[et--cetera]