Creating legal worlds : story and style in a culture of argument /
Through careful analyses of notable cases from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Greig Henderson analyses how the rhetoric of storytelling often carries as much argumentative weight within a judgement as the logic of legal distinctions.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2015]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The cost of persuasion: figure, story, and eloquence in the rhetoric of judicial discourse
- Pure and impure styles: formalism and pragmatism in the language of decision writing
- The perils of analogy: legal world-making and judicial self fashioning in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad
- Murder, they wrote: the rhetoric of causation in the language of the law
- Narrative theory and the art of judgment: the anatomy of a Supreme Court decision
- The look in his eyes: Rusk v. State, State v. Rusk
- Rhetoric, philosophy, and law
- Postscript: rhetoric, postmodernism, and skepticism.