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 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.
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
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
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