Creating Legal Worlds : Story And Style In A Culture Of Argument.

A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal argument.Through careful analyses of notable cases from C...

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Main Author: Henderson, Greig
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University Of Toronto Press, 2018.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Foreword --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t CREATING LEGAL WORLDS. Story and Style in a Culture of Argument --  |t Introduction --  |t 1. The Cost of Persuasion: Figure, Story, and Eloquence in the Rhetoric of Judicial Discourse --  |t 2. Pure and Impure Styles: Formalism and Pragmatism in the Language of Decision Writing --  |t 3. The Perils of Analogy: Legal World-Making and Judicial Self-Fashioning in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad --  |t 4. Murder, They Wrote: The Rhetoric of Causation in the Language of the Law --  |t 5. Narrative Theory and the Art of Judgment: The Anatomy of a Supreme Court Decision --  |t 6. The Look in His Eyes: Rusk v. State, State v. Rusk --  |t 7. Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Law --  |t Postscript: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Scepticism --  |t Works Cited --  |t Index 
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