Law's Stories

Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law

By: Peter Brooks (Editor), Paul Gewirtz (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 March 1998 | Edition Number 1

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The law is full of stories, ranging from the competing narratives presented at trials to the Olympian historical narratives set forth in Supreme Court opinions. How those stories are told and listened to makes a crucial difference to those whose lives are reworked in legal storytelling. The public at large has increasingly been drawn to law as an area where vivid human stories are played out with distinctively high stakes. And scholars in several fields have recently come to recognize that law's stories need to be studied critically.

This notable volume-inspired by a symposium held at Yale Law School-brings together an exceptional group of well-known figures in law and literary studies to take a probing look at how and why stories are told in the law and how they are constructed and made effective. Why is it that some stories-confessions, victim impact statements-can be excluded from decisionmakers' hearing? How do judges claim the authority by which they impose certain stories on reality?

Law's Stories opens new perspectives on the law, as narrative exchange, performance, explanation. It provides a compelling encounter of law and literature, seen as two wary but necessary interlocutors.

Contributors

J. M. Balkin

Peter Brooks

Harlon L. Dalton

Alan M. Dershowitz

Daniel A. Farber

Robert A. Ferguson

Paul Gewirtz

John Hollander

Anthony Kronman

Pierre N. Leval

Sanford Levinson

Catharine MacKinnon

Janet Malcolm

Martha Minow

David N. Rosen

Elaine Scarry

Louis Michael Seidman

Suzanna Sherry

Reva B. Siegel

Robert Weisberg

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Acknowledgments
Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law	p. 2
The Law as Narrative and Rhetoric	p. 14
Stories in Law	p. 24
Legal Storytelling and Constitutional Law: The Medium and the Message	p. 37
Leontius' Tale	p. 54
Storytelling on Its Own Terms	p. 57
Proclaiming Trials as Narratives: Premises and Pretenses	p. 61
Untold Stories in the Law	p. 84
Life Is Not a Dramatic Narrative	p. 99
The Side-Bar Conference	p. 106
Rhetoric and Result in the Bobby Seale Trial	p. 110
Storytelling Without Fear? Confession in Law and Literature	p. 114
Victims and Voyeurs: Two Narrative Problems at the Criminal Trial	p. 135
Some Stories About Confessions and Confessions About Stories	p. 162
Speech Acts in Criminal Cases	p. 165
Legal Rhetoric	p. 176
The Rhetoric of the Judicial Opinion	p. 187
Judicial Opinions as Literature	p. 206
A Night in the Topics: The Reason of Legal Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Legal Reason	p. 211
In the Eyes of the Law: Reflections on the Authority of Legal Discourse	p. 225
Law's Stories as Reality and Politics	p. 232
Notes	p. 239
Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 281
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