Greig Henderson

Creating Legal Worlds

Story and Style in a Culture of Argument

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781487523800
• ISBN-10: 1487523807
• Artikelnr.: 54014394

Autorenporträt

Greig Henderson is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Cost of Persuasion: Figure, Story, and Eloquence in the Rhetoric of
Judicial Discourse 
2. Pure and Impure Styles: Formalism and Pragmatism in the Language of
Decision Writing
3. The Perils of Analogy: Legal World-Making and Judicial Self Fashioning
in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad
4. Murder, They Wrote: The Rhetoric of Causation in the Language of the Law
5. Narrative Theory and the Art of Judgment: The Anatomy of a Supreme Court
Decision
6. The Look in his Eyes: Rusk v. State, State v. Rusk
7. Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Law
Postscript: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Scepticism