Book Description
Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
Author : Gary Bellow
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 1998-05-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472085194
Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
Author : The Secret Barrister
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509841156
An anonymous barrister offers a shocking, darkly comic and very moving journey through the legal system – and explains how it's failing all of us. The Sunday Times number one bestseller. Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award. Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year. You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. You might be a juror, a victim, a witness or – perhaps through no fault of your own – a defendant. Whatever your role, you’d expect a fair trial. I’m a barrister. I work in the criminal justice system, and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed. Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect. The innocent are wronged and the guilty allowed to walk free. In The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken I want to share some stories from my daily life to show you how the system is broken, who broke it and why we should start caring before it’s too late. A Sunday Times top ten bestseller for twenty-four weeks. ‘Eye-opening, funny and horrifying’ – Observer ‘Everyone who has any interest in public life should read it’ – Daily Mail
Author : Michael C. Dorf
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN :
Dorf's Constitutional Law Stories provides a student with an understanding of 15 leading U.S. constitutional law cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and socioeconomic factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained landmark status. This book is suitable for adoption as a supplement in an introductory constitutional law course or as a text for an advanced seminar.
Author : Gary Bellow
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781565840911
Author : Moshe Simon-Shoshan
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199773734
Simon-Shoshan examines the neglected genre of rabbinic legal stories, arguing that this genre is crucial to understanding both rabbinic jurisprudence and rabbinic story-telling and challenging traditional distinctions between law and literature.
Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300146295
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.ContributorsJ. M. BalkinPeter BrooksHarlon L. DaltonAlan M. DershowitzDaniel A. FarberRobert A. FergusonPaul GewirtzJohn HollanderAnthony KronmanPierre N. LevalSanford LevinsonCatharine MacKinnonJanet MalcolmMartha MinowDavid N. RosenElaine ScarryLouis Michael SeidmanSuzanna SherryReva B. SiegelRobert Weisberg.
Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300066753
Law is an area where vivid human stories are played out with very high stakes. This text examines how and why stories are told in the law and how they are constructed and made effective. It seeks to open new perspectives on the law as narrative exchange, performance, explanation.
Author : JOKE-UPON-LITTLETON. JOKE-UPON-LITTLETON
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033500385
Author : Robert Grant
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
But they are our country's laws just the same. And a good man--a patriotic man--ought not to break them. Mary was conscious of voicing George Colfax's sentiments as well as her own. The responsibility of the burden imposed on her was trying, and she disliked her part of mentor. Nevertheless, she felt that she must not abstain from stating the vital point clearly; so she continued: ....
Author : Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN :
Issues of legal philosophy taught in jurisprudence courses have been pondered by brilliant fiction writers. This anthology brings together forty law-related short stories by writers from various times and places, including Boccaccio, Hawthorne, Tolstoy, Kafka, Cather, and Asimov. Divided into five parts--Establishing Laws, The Judicial System, Punishment, Criminal Matters, and Civil Matters--and additional subsections, the stories demonstrate how writers have dealt with topics such as equality, finding the truth, capital punishment, murder, and domestic relations. The section introductions draw upon philosophy, psychology, literature, and law to point to the jurisprudential issues, and also utilize pithy epigraphs for this purpose. Questions are raised, but not answered: the reader is left to reflect on the age-old legal and ethical concerns that continue to trouble and inspire us. This anthology has the ambitious purpose of bringing law in literature to the general public, to practicing attorneys, to students in English or philosophy courses, and to law school students in law and literature courses. Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette has chosen a widely accessible, yet diverse narrative voice. For readers who wish to delve further into the fascinating world of law through literature, the volume concludes with lists of law-related fiction and films.