Rehumanizing law
Subtitle: a theory of law and democracy
By: Randy D. Gordon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781442642294
Subjects: Criticism; Droit dans la littérature; Law; Droit et littérature; Law and literature; Philosophy
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)-- University of Edinburgh, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Law and Narrative: Re-examining the Relationship; title: Describing Law in Terms of Autonomy; title: Narrative as the Basis of Law and the Humanities; title: Shelley's Case, Part 1 Law of The Jungle; title: Shelley's Case, Part 2 Silent Spring; title: Law, Literature, and Narrative; title: What Is Narrative?; title: How Narratives Interact to Influence Legislation; title: Text in Context; title: What's Truth Have to Do with It?; title: Whose Story to Believe?; title: 2.Institutionalizing Narratives; title: Narrative and the Normative Syllogism; title: The Narrative Nudge; title: When Narratives Clash; title: Changes in Narrative, Changes in Law; title: Law's Constraints: Generic or Precedential?; title: Novelizing Law; title: Resisting Narratives: Keeping the Outside Out; title: Absorbing Narratives: Letting the Outside In; title: What Law Can Learn from Literature (and History); title: 3.Law, Narrative, and Democracy; title: The Rule of Law and Its Limits; title: Toward a Democratic Rule of Law; title: The Jury as a Structural Safeguard of Democracy; title: The Democratic Role of Interpretive Communities; title: A Study in Contrasts: The Rodney King and O.J. Simpson Juries; title: Is Jury Nullification Democratic and within the Rule of Law?; title: Some Thoughts on Democratic Interpretation; title: 4.Narrative as Democratic Reasoning; title: The Narrative Shape of Deliberation; title: Law-as-Discipline; title: The Problem with Appellate Practice and Appellate Opinions; title: (Re)Introducing Narratives across the Profession; title: Democratic Education, Practical Reason, and the Law.