Nothing but the truth : why trial lawyers don't, can't, and shouldn't have to tell the whole truth / Steven Lubet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubet, Steven.

Series:

Critical America.

Critical America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States.

Law.

Trial practice--United States.

Trial practice.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2001.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to befuddle witnesses and bamboozle juries. Why not simply allow the witnesses to speak their minds, without the distorting influence of lawyers' strata

Contents:

Biff and me : stories that are truer than true

Edgardo Mortara : forbidden truths

John Brown : political truth and consequences

Wyatt Earp : truth and context

Liberty Valance : truth or justice

Atticus Finch : race, class, gender, and truth

Sheila McGough : the impossibility of the whole truth.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9780814752906

081475290X

9780814765029

0814765025

OCLC:

779828238