This book considers how law is always enacted, or performed, in
ways that can be analyzed in relation to fiction, theatre, and
other dramatic forms. Of necessity, lawyers and judges need to
devise techniques to make rules respond situationally. The
performance of law supplements, or it extends the reach of, the
law-as-written. And, in this respect, the act of lawyering is in
many ways an instantiation of acts often associated with, for
example, literature and the plastic and performing arts. Combining
legal theory and legal practice, this book maintains that the modes
of enquiry found in, and applied to, novels, paintings, and plays
can help us understand how things like legal arguments and trials
work-or don't. As such, and through the examination of a wide range
of both historical and fictional legal cases, the book pursues an
interdisciplinary analysis of how law is performed; and, moreover,
how legal performances can be accomplished ethically. This book
will appeal to scholars and students in sociolegal studies, legal
theory, and jurisprudence, as well as those teaching and training
in legal practice.
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