The Rhetoric Of Law.
Law is a profession of words. Simultaneously celebratory of great prose and dogmatically insistent on precise usage, law is a stage for verbal virtuosity, linguistic mastery, and persuasive argument. Yet the linguistic display is not without substance: the words of law take on a seriousness virtuall...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Michigan Press
2009.
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| ISBN: | 1282423614 9781282423619 9780472023677 0472023675 9786612423611 6612423617 |
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Table of Contents:
- Editorial Introduction. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns; Imagining the Law. James Boyd White; Antirrhesis: Polemical Structures of Common Law Thought. Peter Goodrich; Becoming American: High Treason and Low Invective in the Republic of Laws. Robert A. Ferguson; Speaking of Death: Narratives of Violence in Capital Trials. Austin Sarat; Ordering Voice: Rhetoric and Democracy in Project Head Start. Lucie White; Constitutional Discourse and Its Discontents: An Essay on the Rhetoric of Judicial Review. Lawrence Douglas; The Alchemy of Style and Law. Barbara Johnson.
- Reading the Law. Adam ThurschwellContributors; Index.