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Practice extended : beyond law and literature / Robert A. Ferguson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231540599
  • 0231540590
  • 0231175361
  • 9780231175364
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 809/.933554 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.L33 F47 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Letters in Law -- Part One. Literary Components in the Legal Imagination -- 1. The U.S. Constitution as Literature -- 2. The Place of Mercy in Legal Discourse -- 3. Immigration Law: An Answer to Intractability -- Part Two. The Nature of Judgment -- 4. Holmes and the Judicial Figure -- 5. The Opinion as Literary Genre -- 6. Ulysses in Government Hands -- Part Three. The Public Uses of Eloquence -- 7. Lawyer Lincoln: The Making of Eloquence -- 8. Memorialization and the Spirit of Law -- 9. Precision in Persuasion -- Part Four. When Law Fails -- 10. The Somers Mutiny and the American Ship of State -- 11. Invading Panama: Circumstance and the Rule of Law -- Coda: How to Read a Courtroom Novel -- Notes -- Cases Cited -- Index.
Summary: Practice Extended helps general readers navigate the intricacies of legal language and thought, strengthening their grasp on law's relationship to society and culture. The book details how judicial opinions are written, how legal thought and philosophy inform ideas, and how best to appreciate a courtroom novel. With chapters on immigration, eloquence, the Constitution, Ulysses, and mercy, Practice Extended is a far-ranging work on the importance of language in law and the interrelation of law and literature.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Letters in Law -- Part One. Literary Components in the Legal Imagination -- 1. The U.S. Constitution as Literature -- 2. The Place of Mercy in Legal Discourse -- 3. Immigration Law: An Answer to Intractability -- Part Two. The Nature of Judgment -- 4. Holmes and the Judicial Figure -- 5. The Opinion as Literary Genre -- 6. Ulysses in Government Hands -- Part Three. The Public Uses of Eloquence -- 7. Lawyer Lincoln: The Making of Eloquence -- 8. Memorialization and the Spirit of Law -- 9. Precision in Persuasion -- Part Four. When Law Fails -- 10. The Somers Mutiny and the American Ship of State -- 11. Invading Panama: Circumstance and the Rule of Law -- Coda: How to Read a Courtroom Novel -- Notes -- Cases Cited -- Index.

Practice Extended helps general readers navigate the intricacies of legal language and thought, strengthening their grasp on law's relationship to society and culture. The book details how judicial opinions are written, how legal thought and philosophy inform ideas, and how best to appreciate a courtroom novel. With chapters on immigration, eloquence, the Constitution, Ulysses, and mercy, Practice Extended is a far-ranging work on the importance of language in law and the interrelation of law and literature.

In English.

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