The Analysis of Legal Cases: A Narrative Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367726935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 302 str.

Flora Di Donato

Opis

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

Spis treści

Foreword

COLETTE DAIUTE AND ANN SHALLECK

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

O autorze

Flora Di Donato is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law, at the Federico II University of Naples, where she teaches Clinical Legal Education (Formazione Clinico-Legale). Her research focuses on the analysis of the law in real life and the contribution of laypeople in constructing the meanings of the law. In 2010, she was awarded the Annual RCSL Adam Podgórecki (ISA) Prize "for her outstanding achievements as an emerging scholar in socio-legal research". She has been a lecturer, a research fellow and a visiting scholar in several different Italian, Swiss and USA universities.