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