Communicating the Law
Subtitle: Lessons from Landmark Legal Cases
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Waveland Press; Waveland Press, Incorporated
Published: December 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781577664765
Subjects: General; Communications; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Communication in law; Trial practice; Trials; United States
Description: "Schuetz familiarizes readers first with contemporary and conventional theories of communication (discourse, language, argumentation, narrative, dramatism, and games), and then with fundamental legal principles, procedures, and protocols. Next, through one or more of the communication lenses previously discussed, she examines and analyzes how the communication of attorneys, defendants, witnesses, and judges inside the courtroom and of the media outside the courtroom affect the dynamics and, in some instances, the outcome of nine legal cases. An awareness of such communication perspectives when one observes a trial, reads or sees a media representation of a legal proceeding, or engages in critical analysis of a legal practice or process broadens understanding and fosters the ability to have informed opinions about meaningful social agendas."--BOOK JACKET.