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Law's Stories - Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (Paperback, New Ed)
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Law's Stories - Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (Paperback, New Ed)
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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. Contributors J. M. Balkin Peter Brooks
Harlon L. Dalton Alan M. Dershowitz Daniel A. Farber Robert A.
Ferguson Paul Gewirtz John Hollander Anthony Kronman Pierre N.
Leval Sanford Levinson Catharine MacKinnon Janet Malcolm Martha
Minow David N. Rosen Elaine Scarry Louis Michael Seidman Suzanna
Sherry Reva B. Siegel Robert Weisberg
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