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Making the case : the art of the judicial opinion / Paul W. Kahn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300220841
  • 0300220847
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making the case. The art of the judicial opinion.DDC classification:
  • 347.077 22
LOC classification:
  • K2300
Online resources:
Contents:
A preface for students, with a note to everyone else -- Why read the opinions? -- The opinion and narrative -- Unity : the judicial voice -- Legal doctrine : between erudition and fundamentalism -- Facts : stating the case -- Conclusion : making the case for a humanist study of the law.
Summary: Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn's classic The Bramble Bush, Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure of the judicial opinion. Learning to read the opinion, the student learns the nature of legal argument. Thus Kahn's exposition of the opinion simultaneously offers a theory of legal meaning that will be of great interest to scholars of law, humanities, and the social sciences. At the center of Kahn's approach are ideas of narrative, persuasion, and self-government. His sweeping account of interpretation in law offers innovative views of the nature of authorship, the development and decline of doctrine, and the construction of facts.
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Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn's classic The Bramble Bush, Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure of the judicial opinion. Learning to read the opinion, the student learns the nature of legal argument. Thus Kahn's exposition of the opinion simultaneously offers a theory of legal meaning that will be of great interest to scholars of law, humanities, and the social sciences. At the center of Kahn's approach are ideas of narrative, persuasion, and self-government. His sweeping account of interpretation in law offers innovative views of the nature of authorship, the development and decline of doctrine, and the construction of facts.

Print version record.

A preface for students, with a note to everyone else -- Why read the opinions? -- The opinion and narrative -- Unity : the judicial voice -- Legal doctrine : between erudition and fundamentalism -- Facts : stating the case -- Conclusion : making the case for a humanist study of the law.

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