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In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psychologists to put American constitutional law into an American cultural context. By close readings of key Supreme Court opinions, they show how story...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amsterdam, Anthony G.
Other Authors: Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Edition:1st Harvard University Press pap. ed.
Subjects:
Law > United States > Interpretation and construction.
Law > United States > Methodology.
Judicial opinions > United States.
Culture and law.
Droit > États-Unis > Interprétation.
Droit > États-Unis > Méthodologie.
Jugements > États-Unis.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LAW > Trial Practice.
Judicial opinions.
Law > Interpretation and construction.
Law > Methodology.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • 1 Invitation to a Journey
  • 2 On Categories
  • 3 Categorizing at the Supreme Court: Missouri v. Jenkins and Michael H. v. Gerald D.
  • 4 On Narrative
  • 5 Narratives at Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania and Freeman v. Pitts
  • 6 On Rhetorics
  • 7 The Rhetorics of Death: McCleskey v. Kemp
  • 8 On the Dialectic of Culture
  • 9 Race, the Court, and Americaâ€?s Dialectic: From Plessy through Brown to Pitts and Jenkins
  • 10 Reflections on a Voyage
  • Appendix: Analysis of Nouns and Verbs in the Prigg, Pitts, and Brown Opinions
  • Notes
  • Table of Cases

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