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The Rhetoric of Law.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1994Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472023677
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Rhetoric of LawDDC classification:
  • 349.7/3/014
LOC classification:
  • KF380
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Thurschwell -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: An interdisciplinary critique of the relationship between words and the law.
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Intro -- 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 Thurschwell -- Contributors -- Index.

An interdisciplinary critique of the relationship between words and the law.

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