# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-boyd-white
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:21:05.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-boyd-white"
name: "James Boyd White"
slug: "james-boyd-white"
description: "James Boyd White is an American law professor, literary critic, scholar and philosopher who is generally credited with founding the \"law and Literature\" movement. He is a proponent of the analysis of constitutive rhetoric in the analysis of legal texts."
tagline: "American legal scholar"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.31
  momentum:             3.191489361702129
  historical:           5.474010666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://websites.umich.edu/~jbwhite/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyd_White"
    title: "James Boyd White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جيمس بويد وايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyd_White"
    title: "James Boyd White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyd_White"
    title: "James Boyd White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98"
    title: "ג'יימס בויד וייט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyd_White"
    title: "James Boyd White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12404796"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump