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The Rhetoric Of Law.

Law is a profession of words. Simultaneously celebratory of great prose and dogmatically insistent on precise usage, law is a stage for verbal virtuosity, linguistic mastery, and persuasive argument. Yet the linguistic display is not without substance: the words of law take on a seriousness virtuall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin (Editor ), Kearns, Thomas R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2009.
Colección:Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Editorial Introduction. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns; Imagining the Law. James Boyd White; Antirrhesis: Polemical Structures of Common Law Thought. Peter Goodrich; Becoming American: High Treason and Low Invective in the Republic of Laws. Robert A. Ferguson; Speaking of Death: Narratives of Violence in Capital Trials. Austin Sarat; Ordering Voice: Rhetoric and Democracy in Project Head Start. Lucie White; Constitutional Discourse and Its Discontents: An Essay on the Rhetoric of Judicial Review. Lawrence Douglas; The Alchemy of Style and Law. Barbara Johnson.
  • Reading the Law. Adam ThurschwellContributors; Index.