The Performance of Law: Everyday Lawyering at the Intersection of Advocacy and Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781032303352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Randy Gordon

Opis

This book considers how law is always enacted, or performed, in ways that can be analysed in relation to fiction, theatre, and other dramatic forms.

Spis treści

Introduction, Overview of Book, 1. Fiction as a Mode of Justice, 2. Institutionalizing Exemplary Narratives: Stories as Models for and Movers of Law, 3. Law and Its Places of Performance, 4. Law-as-Performance, 5. Legal Narratives Performed and Imagined, 6. What is a Virtuous Lawyer? Adventures in Interpretation, A Conclusion without Closure