Creating legal worlds
Subtitle: story and style in a culture of argument
By: Greig Henderson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781442637085
Subjects: Rhetoric; Language; Forensic orations; Law and literature; Law; Semantics (Law); Forensic oratory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: The cost of persuasion: figure, story, and eloquence in the rhetoric of judicial discourse; title: Pure and impure styles: formalism and pragmatism in the language of decision writing; title: The perils of analogy: legal world-making and judicial self fashioning in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad; title: Murder, they wrote: the rhetoric of causation in the language of the law; title: Narrative theory and the art of judgment: the anatomy of a Supreme Court decision; title: The look in his eyes: Rusk v. State, State v. Rusk; title: Rhetoric, philosophy, and law; title: Postscript: rhetoric, postmodernism, and skepticism.