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Title Law's stories : narrative and rhetoric in the law / edited by Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz
Published New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1996

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Description vii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Narrative and rhetoric in the law / Paul Gewirtz -- The law as narrative and rhetoric / Peter Brooks -- Stories in law / Martha Minow -- Legal storytelling and constitutional law : the medium and the message / Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry -- Leontius' tale / Anthony Kronman -- Storytelling on its own terms / Harlon L. Dalton -- Proclaiming trials as narratives : premises and pretenses / Robert Weisberg -- Untold stories in the law / Robert A. Ferguson -- Life is not a dramatic narrative / Alan M. Dershowitz -- The side-bar conference / Janet Malcolm -- Rhetoric and result in the Bobby Seale trial / David N. Rosen -- Storytelling without fear? Confession in law and literature / Peter Brooks -- Victims and voyeurs : two narrative problems at the criminal trial / Paul Gewirtz -- Some stories about confessions and confessions about stories / Louis Michael Seidman -- Speech acts in criminal cases / Elaine Scarry -- Legal rhetoric / John Hollander -- The rhetoric of the judicial opinion / Sanford Levinson -- Judicial opinions as literature / Pierre N. Leval -- A night in the topics : the reason of legal rhetoric and the rhetoric of legal reason / J.M. Balkin -- In the eyes of the law : reflections on the authority of legal discourse / Reva B. Siegel -- Law's stories as reality and politics / Catharine A. MacKinnon
Summary This important volume 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. How do legal stories gain or lose their impact? What are the uses and risks of storytelling as opposed to arguments and theories? Why is it that some stories - confessions, victim impact statements - can be excluded from decisionmakers' hearing? What rhetorical strategies do judges use to gain persuasiveness or to claim authority to impose certain stories on reality? Law's Stories opens new perspectives on the law - looking at it not as rules and policies but as stories, narrative exchange, performances, interpretation. It provides a compelling encounter of law and literature, seen as two wary but mutually animating fields
Analysis Law Semiotics
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Law -- Congresses.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Congresses.
Law -- Language.
Law -- Methodology.
Forensic oratory.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Genre/Form Kongreß
Author Brooks, Peter, 1938-
Gewirtz, Paul
LC no. 95026410
ISBN 0300066759 alkaline paper