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Author : Gary Bellow,Martha Minow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015038117092
Law stories: The Law As Seen from the Outside.
Author : The Secret Barrister
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509841158
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 : Patricia Ewick,Susan S. Silbey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226212708
Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than four hundred people of diverse backgrounds in order to explore the different ways that people use and experience it. Their fascinating and original study identifies three common narratives of law that are captured in the stories people tell. One narrative is based on an idea of the law as magisterial and remote. Another views the law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage. A third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power that is actively resisted. Drawing on these extensive case studies, Ewick and Silbey present individual experiences interwoven with an analysis that charts a coherent and compelling theory of legality. A groundbreaking study of law and narrative, The Common Place of Law depicts the institution as it is lived: strange and familiar, imperfect and ordinary, and at the center of daily life.
Author : Sarah Langford
Publisher : Random House
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473544734
'As thrilling as a detective novel.' The Times 'Powerful, moving and often captivating.' Financial Times 'A compelling read for anyone who cares about fairness, justice and humanity.' Observer The Sunday Times bestseller ___ Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the vulnerable, the heartbroken and the hopeful. She must become their voice. Sarah weaves their story around the black and white of the law and tell it to the courtroom. These stories may not make headlines but they will change the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary ways. They are stories which, but for a twist of luck, might have been yours. With remarkable candour, Sarah describes eleven cases which reveal what goes on in our criminal and family courts: these are tales of domestic fall out, everyday burglary, sexual indiscretion, and children caught up in the law. They are sometimes shocking and they are often heart-stopping. She examines how she feels as she defends the person standing in the dock. She also shows us how our attitudes and actions can shape not only the outcome of a case, but the legal system itself. ___ What readers are saying: ***** 'Absolutely fascinating . . . thought provoking, powerful and a compelling read.' ***** 'This book broke my heart at times but also contained humour and such poignant insights into the criminal justice system.' ***** 'Sarah writes incredibly well - she's informative while maintaining suspense and tension, and conveys so much emotion in her writing
Author : Peter Brooks,Paul Gewirtz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300146299
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 : John E. Noyes,Laura Anne Dickinson,Mark W. Janis
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064224020
This title sets the most significant international law cases in their social, political, and historical context. It showcases 13 essays by leading international law experts. The essays are organized in three groupings: stories about the development of international human rights law, stories about the use of international law in the U.S. legal system, and stories about international law's impact on interstate politics and the global economy. Experienced international law scholars, teachers, and practitioners will discover valuable new insights, and readers new to international law will find that the book quickly immerses them in the most significant developments in the field.
Author : Elizabeth M. Schneider,Stephanie M. Wildman
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1599415895
Softbound - New, softbound print book.
Author : Kevin M. Clermont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 1599413477
This book is a collaborative effort by fourteen law-school professors to provide a deeper understanding of the great civil procedure cases. The professors each wrote a short chapter on one of the cases, retelling the cases in their own voice and by their own method. Each chapter has a fairly consistent structure, with separate sections on: social and legal background of the case; factual background of the case; lower court proceedings in the case; final appellate disposition, including issues, decisions, reasons, and separate opinions; factual postscript to the case; immediate impact of the case on the development of the law (why the case is famous and when it became so); and continuing importance of the case today (why it is still a leading case).The accompanying website, http://civprostories.law.cornell.edu, serves as a research tool for students, academics, and practitioners. The poste
Author : Carole E. Goldberg,Kevin K. Washburn,Philip P. Frickey
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1599417294
Softbound - New, softbound print book.
Author : Michael C. Dorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000128332024
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 : Gerald Korngold,Andrew P. Morriss
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
ISBN : 1599413752
Softbound - New, softbound print book.
Author : Carol Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134436620
Sanger's Family Law Stories presents the historical, procedural, personal, and political background of 11 significant family law cases. The essays, written by leading family law scholars, cover four main areas: Marriage Parenting and custody Separation and divorce The definition of family Other essays investigate well-known state and federal cases on such topics as child kidnapping, the intentional infliction of emotional distress, the Indian Child Welfare Act, and frozen embryos.
Author : Joshua A. Douglas,Eugene David Mazo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Election law
ISBN : 1634604334
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Author : Moshe Simon-Shoshan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199773817
Winner of Honorable Mention in the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards of the Association for Jewish Studies Moshe Simon-Shoshan offers a groundbreaking study of Jewish law (halakhah) and rabbinic story-telling. Focusing on the Mishnah, the foundational text of halakhah, he argues that narrative was essential in early rabbinic formulations and concepts of law, legal process, and political and religious authority. The book begins by presenting a theoretical framework for considering the role of narrative in the Mishnah. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including narrative theory, Semitic linguistics, and comparative legal studies, Simon-Shoshan shows that law and narrative are inextricably intertwined in the Mishnah. Narrative is central to the way in which the Mishnah transmits law and ideas about jurisprudence. Furthermore, the Mishnah's stories are the locus around which the Mishnah both constructs and critiques its concept of the rabbis as the ultimate arbiters of Jewish law and practice. In the second half of the book, Simon-Shoshan applies these ideas to close readings of individual Mishnaic stories. Among these stories are some of the most famous narratives in rabbinic literature, including those of Honi the Circle-drawer and R. Gamliel's Yom Kippur confrontation with R. Joshua. In each instance, Simon-Shoshan elucidates the legal, political, theological, and human elements of the story and places them in the wider context of the book's arguments about law, narrative, and rabbinic authority. Stories of the Law presents an original and forceful argument for applying literary theory to legal texts, challenging the traditional distinctions between law and literature that underlie much contemporary scholarship.
Author : Donna Coker,Robert Weisberg
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : 1599414392
Softbound - New, softbound print book.