Law's stories : narrative and rhetoric in the law /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brooks, Peter, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [1996]
Subjects:
Table of 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.