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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Henderson, Greig Edward (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Creating legal worlds [Texte imprimé] : story and style in a culture of argument / Greig Henderson
Publication : Toronto : University of Toronto press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : x, 180 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-172) and index
"A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties
to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and
how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal 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.
Through their narrative choices, Henderson argues, judges create a normative universe--the
world of right and wrong within which they make their judgements--and fashion their
own judicial self-images. Drawing on the work of the law and literature movement,
Creating Legal Worlds is a convincing argument for paying close attention to the role
of story and style in the creation of judicial decisions.""--Jacket
Sujet(s) : Langage juridique
Sémiotique et droit
Droit et littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781442637085. - ISBN 1442637080 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45078331n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45078331
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
