caa a22 4500 386392366 CHVBK 20180307112123.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1051195 doi S0748081400005324 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1051195 Schwartz Bryan Individuals and Community [Elektronische Daten] [Bryan Schwartz] "The completion of this project was greatly facilitated by the intellectual guidance and personal encouragement of Bob Cover. He was a man who practiced, but did not preach; a scholar, and a mensch.” So reads the final acknowledgement in my book First Principles, Second Thoughts: Aboriginal Peoples, Constitutional Reform and Canadian Statecraft, which addresses the theory, law, and political practice concerning groups in Canada with special rights by virtue of their special history. The law and life of traditional groups was a fundamental concern for Bob Cover. His Nomos and Narrative is a masterful word portrait of how the understanding of rights in a traditional group is influenced by its historical myths and by its encounters with the moral and legal standards of the larger world. The article is one of the very few law review articles that deserve the name "literature.” It could only have been written by an artist with an understanding and sympathy for the history and scriptures of a diverse array of traditional communities. It never degenerates into pedantic and empty abstractions. Its broad assertions are constantly illustrated, substantiated and vivified by reference to experiences and self-understanding of real human beings. Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1989 Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 131-172 0748-0814 7:1<131 1989 7 JLR https://doi.org/10.2307/1051195 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1051195 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schwartz Bryan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 131-172 0748-0814 7:1<131 1989 7 JLR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge