Di Donato, Flora.

The Analysis of Legal Cases : A Narrative Approach. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (323 pages) - Law, Language and Communication Series . - Law, Language and Communication Series .

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Why adopt a narrative approach to law? -- Part I Theoretical and methodological frameworks -- 1 Culture, narrative and law -- 2 The narrative turn in the legal field -- 3 Fact construction: contexts, roles and methods -- Part II Trajectories of case analysis -- Section I - Fact construction -- 4 Rediscovering the role of the client -- 5 The lawyer as translator -- 6 The judge as a creative decision maker -- Section II - Narratives in cultural contexts -- 7 Laypeople in action I: natives' stories -- 8 Laypeople in action II: foreigners' stories -- Section III - Improving justice for vulnerable people -- 9 Collaborative lawyering with vulnerable clients: asylum seekers' stories -- Conclusions Moving towards new directions of narrative theory and clinical legal research -- Index.

This book examines the role played by narrative and culture in constructing the facts and legal cases and the reaching their solution.

9781351839822


Law-Philosophy.
Sociological jurisprudence.


Electronic books.

K230.D654 .D663 2020

340.115