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Law's Stories : Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law by Professor Peter Brooks, Paul Gewirtz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The law is full of stories, ranging from the competing narratives presented at trials to the Olympian historical narratives set forth in Supreme Court opinions. How those stories are told and listened to makes a crucial difference to those whose lives are reworked in legal storytelling. The public at large has increasingly been drawn to law as an area where vivid human stories are played out with distinctively high stakes. And scholars in several fields have recently come to recognize that law's stories need to be studied critically. This notable volumeinspired by a symposium held at Yale Law Schoolbrings together an exceptional group of well-known figures in law and literary studies to take a probing look at how and why stories are told in the law and how they are constructed and made effective. Why is it that some storiesconfessions, victim impact statementscan be excluded from decisionmakers' hearing? How do judges claim the authority by which they impose certain stories on reality? Law's Stories opens new perspectives on the law, as narrative exchange, performance, explanation. It provides a compelling encounter of law and literature, seen as two wary but necessary interlocutor

Who reads Law's Stories : Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law?

Author

Professor Peter Brooks, Paul Gewirtz

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585386980

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Political Science, Government & Politics