Making the Case: The Art of the Judicial Opinion - Hardcover

Kahn, Paul W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300212089 ISBN 13: 9780300212082

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2016

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Críticas:

"Every law student needs this book, but so does anyone else who seeks to understand-beyond the familiar soundbites-how judges think and how law is made."-Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School -- Linda Greenhouse "Paul Kahn is one of the greatest legal humanists the academy has ever produced. His lucid and profound book shows us that the legal case is a rhetorical genre no less deserving of systematic study than the novel, play, or sonnet. I knew long before I finished the book that I would never read--or teach--the same way again." --Kenji Yoshino, NYU -- Kenji Yoshino "Paying close attention to the legal opinion-how it is structured, the texture of its argument-leads us to the heart of what law is and does. Paul Kahn's book makes a wholly persuasive case for why we need to read the law."-Peter Brooks, Princeton University -- Peter Brooks "Every law student will want this book. Paul Kahn takes us beyond the typical holdings and precedents in judicial opinions to the all-important questions of how legal language convinces us of the truth it wants us to hear."-Robert Ferguson, Columbia Law School -- Robert Ferguson

Reseña del editor:

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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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0300212089
• ISBN 13: 9780300212082
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256