Practice extended : beyond law and literature /
"Practice Extended is a collection of Robert A. Ferguson's essays reflecting forty years of his scholarship and reflects the evolution and the aims of the field as well as its impact on the study of both literature and law. Ferguson's work explores a wide range of topics including imm...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the letters in law
- Literary components in the legal imagination
- The U.S. Constitution as literature
- The place of mercy in legal discourse
- Immigration law: an answer to intractability
- The nature of judgment
- Holmes and the judicial figure
- The opinion as literary genre
- Ulysses in government hands
- The public uses of eloquence
- Lawyer Lincoln: the making of eloquence
- Memorialization and the spirit of law
- Precision in persuasion
- When law fails
- The Somers Mutiny and the American ship of state
- Invading Panama: circumstance and the rule of law
- Coda: how to read a courtroom novel.