The Legal Imagination

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University of Chicago Press, 15 de dez. de 1985 - 302 páginas
White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it.

"A fascinating study of the language of the law. . . . This book is to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to read it, it will broaden the mind, and give lawyers a new insight into their role."—New Law Journal

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Chapter 1 The Lawyer as Writer
1
An Introduction To Your Literary Circumstances
71
Chapter 3 How The Law Talks About People Who Is This Man?
109
The Insanity Defense
170
Chapter 4 The Imagination of the Lawyer
207
A Is the Judge Really a Poet?
211
What More Do We Find in the Poem and Opinion?
212
The Education of the Imagination?
216
3 More on the Judicial Opinion and the Poem
236
B The Narrative Imagincation and the Claim of Meaning
242
Addressing an Incompatibility of Discourse
245
The Historian as Model for the Lawyers
262
Clarendons History of the Rebellion
273
Index
297
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James Boyd White is the Hart Wright Professor of Law, professor of English, and adjunct professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan. His many books include The Legal Imagination, Acts of Hope, and Justice as Translation, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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