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Law's Stories : Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law / Paul Gewirtz, Peter Brooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Language.
- Law.
- Law--Methodology.
- Forensic oratory.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 290 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The law is full of stories, ranging from the competing narratives presented at trials to the Olympian historical narratives set forth in Supreme Court opinions. How those stories are told and listened to makes a crucial difference to those whose lives are reworked in legal storytelling. The public at large has increasingly been drawn to law as an area where vivid human stories are played out with distinctively high stakes. And scholars in several fields have recently come to recognize that law's stories need to be studied critically.This notable volume-inspired by a symposium held at Yale Law School-brings together an exceptional group of well-known figures in law and literary studies to take a probing look at how and why stories are told in the law and how they are constructed and made effective. Why is it that some stories-confessions, victim impact statements-can be excluded from decisionmakers' hearing? How do judges claim the authority by which they impose certain stories on reality?Law's Stories opens new perspectives on the law, as narrative exchange, performance, explanation. It provides a compelling encounter of law and literature, seen as two wary but necessary interlocutors.ContributorsJ. M. BalkinPeter BrooksHarlon L. DaltonAlan M. DershowitzDaniel A. FarberRobert A. FergusonPaul GewirtzJohn HollanderAnthony KronmanPierre N. LevalSanford LevinsonCatharine MacKinnonJanet MalcolmMartha MinowDavid N. RosenElaine ScarryLouis Michael SeidmanSuzanna SherryReva B. SiegelRobert Weisberg
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law
- The Law as Narrative and Rhetoric
- Stories in Law
- Legal Storytelling and Constitutional Law: The Medium and the Message
- Leontius' Tale
- Storytelling on Its Own Terms
- Proclaiming Trials as Narratives: Premises and Pretenses
- Untold Stories in the Law
- Life Is Not a Dramatic Narrative
- The Side-Bar Conference
- Rhetoric and Result in the Bobby Seale Trial
- Storytelling Without Fear? Confession in Law and Literature
- Victims and Voyeurs: Two Narrative Problems at the Criminal Trial
- Some Stories About Confessions and Confessions About Stories
- Speech Acts in Criminal Cases
- Legal Rhetoric
- The Rhetoric of the Judicial Opinion
- Judicial Opinions as Literature
- A Night in the Topics: The Reason of Legal Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Legal Reason
- In the Eyes of the Law: Reflections on the Authority of Legal Discourse
- Law's Stories as Reality and Politics
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-278) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780585386980
- 0585386985
- 9780300146295
- 0300146299
- OCLC:
- 1024006976
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