Minding the Law Author:Anthony G. Amsterdam, Jerome Bruner In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psychologists to put American constitutional law into an American cultural context. By close readings of key Supreme Court opinions, Anthony Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner show how storytelling tactics and deeply... more » rooted mythic structures shape the Court's decisions about race, family law, and the death penalty. "It is hard to imagine a better time for the publication of Minding the Law, a brilliant dissection of the court's work by two eminent scholars … Issue by issue, case by case, Amsterdam and Brunermake mincemeat of the court's handling of the most important constitutional issue of the modern era: how to eradicate the American legacy of race discrimination, especially against blacks.« less