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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Henderson, Greig E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.