Law's stories : narrative and rhetoric in the law / edited by Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz.
1996
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Title
Law's stories : narrative and rhetoric in the law / edited by Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz.
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [1996]
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
K213 .L398 1996
ISBN
0300066759 (alk. paper)
Description
vii, 290 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)33820418
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-278) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law / Paul Gewirtz
2
The Law as Narrative and Rhetoric / Peter Brooks
14
Stories in Law / Martha Minow
24
Legal Storytelling and Constitutional Law: The Medium and the Message / Daniel A. Farber Suzanna Sherry
37
Leontius' Tale / Anthony Kronman
54
Storytelling on Its Own Terms / Harlon L. Dalton
57
Proclaiming Trials as Narratives: Premises and Pretenses / Robert Weisberg
61
Untold Stories in the Law / Robert A. Ferguson
84
Life Is Not a Dramatic Narrative / Alan M. Dershowitz
99
The Side-Bar Conference / Janet Malcolm
106
Rhetoric and Result in the Bobby Seale Trial / David N. Rosen
110
Storytelling Without Fear? Confession in Law and Literature / Peter Brooks
114
Victims and Voyeurs: Two Narrative Problems at the Criminal Trial / Paul Gewirtz
135
Some Stories About Confessions and Confessions About Stories / Louis Michael Seidman
162
Speech Acts in Criminal Cases / Elaine Scarry
165
Legal Rhetoric / John Hollander
176
The Rhetoric of the Judicial Opinion / Sanford Levinson
187
Judicial Opinions as Literature / Pierre N. Leval
206
A Night in the Topics: The Reason of Legal Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Legal Reason / J. M. Balkin
211
In the Eyes of the Law: Reflections on the Authority of Legal Discourse / Reva B. Siegel
225
Law's Stories as Reality and Politics / Catharine A. MacKinnon
232
Notes
239
Contributors
279
Index
281