Narrative, Authority, and Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative, Authority, and Law write by Robin West. This book was released on 1993. Narrative, Authority, and Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenges the moral basis for the authority of law
Law's Stories
Law's Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law's Stories write by Peter Brooks. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Law's Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The law is full of stories, ranging from the competing narratives presented at trials to the Olympian historical narratives set forth in Supreme Court opinions. How those stories are told and listened to makes a crucial difference to those whose lives are reworked in legal storytelling. The public at large has increasingly been drawn to law as an area where vivid human stories are played out with distinctively high stakes. And scholars in several fields have recently come to recognize that law's stories need to be studied critically.This notable volume-inspired by a symposium held at Yale Law School-brings together an exceptional group of well-known figures in law and literary studies to take a probing look at how and why stories are told in the law and how they are constructed and made effective. Why is it that some stories-confessions, victim impact statements-can be excluded from decisionmakers' hearing? How do judges claim the authority by which they impose certain stories on reality?Law's Stories opens new perspectives on the law, as narrative exchange, performance, explanation. It provides a compelling encounter of law and literature, seen as two wary but necessary interlocutors.ContributorsJ. M. BalkinPeter BrooksHarlon L. DaltonAlan M. DershowitzDaniel A. FarberRobert A. FergusonPaul GewirtzJohn HollanderAnthony KronmanPierre N. LevalSanford LevinsonCatharine MacKinnonJanet MalcolmMartha MinowDavid N. RosenElaine ScarryLouis Michael SeidmanSuzanna SherryReva B. SiegelRobert Weisberg.
Constitutional Law as Fiction
Constitutional Law as Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constitutional Law as Fiction write by L. H. LaRue. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Constitutional Law as Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Stories of the Law
Stories of the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stories of the Law write by Moshe Simon-Shoshan. This book was released on 2012-03-30. Stories of the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Simon-Shoshan examines the neglected genre of rabbinic legal stories, arguing that this genre is crucial to understanding both rabbinic jurisprudence and rabbinic story-telling and challenging traditional distinctions between law and literature.
Human Rights, Inc.
Human Rights, Inc. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights, Inc. write by Joseph R. Slaughter. This book was released on 2009-08-25. Human Rights, Inc. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel of coming of age, fills out this image, offering a conceptual vocabulary, a humanist social vision, and a narrative grammar for what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and early literary theorists both call “the free and full development of the human personality.” Revising our received understanding of the relationship between law and literature, Slaughter suggests that this narrative form has acted as a cultural surrogate for the weak executive authority of international law, naturalizing the assumptions and conditions that make human rights appear commonsensical. As a kind of novelistic correlative to human rights law, the Bildungsroman has thus been doing some of the sociocultural work of enforcement that the law cannot do for itself. This analysis of the cultural work of law and of the social work of literature challenges traditional Eurocentric histories of both international law and the dissemination of the novel. Taking his point of departure in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Slaughter focuses on recent postcolonial versions of the coming-of-age story to show how the promise of human rights becomes legible in narrative and how the novel and the law are complicit in contemporary projects of globalization: in colonialism, neoimperalism, humanitarianism, and the spread of multinational consumer capitalism. Slaughter raises important practical and ethical questions that we must confront in advocating for human rights and reading world literature—imperatives that, today more than ever, are intertwined.
