Criminal Law Stories
Author: Donna Coker
Publisher: Foundation Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781599414393
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Legal Briefs
Author: William Bernhardt
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780385491389
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An anthology of crime and court stories. One story is on a relationship between an experienced lawyer and one just starting his career, in another the prosecutor falls for the defendant.
Stories of the Law
Author: Moshe Simon-Shoshan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0199773815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Law Stories
Author: Gary Bellow
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998-05-11
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780472085194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
The Secret Barrister
Author: The Secret Barrister
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781509884742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How can you defend a child-abuser you suspect to be guilty? What do you say to someone imprisoned for ten years, who you are sure is innocent? What is the law? Why do we need it? How does it happen? Why do they wear those stupid wigs? Every year in England, the Crown Prosecution Service brings hundreds of thousands of prosecutions, with cases both simple and frighteningly complex, stretching across the spectrum of human cruelty. These are the stories of one barrister's experience at the Criminal Bar, the cases prosecuted and the cases defended, to answer the questions we all have about both the system and the moral dilemmas of the law. This is a book that seeks not only to shine a light on some of the best and worst of humanity but also to force us to think clearly about a system which would never be off the front pages if the public knew what it was really like. From the brain behind award-winning legal blog The Secret Barrister, comes this brilliant examination of how the law happens in Britain today. Rooted in personal experience but encompassing hugely important principles of moral philosophy, this will do for the legal system what Do No Harm did for brain surgery. The Secret Barrister blog is frequently quoted in the mainstream press and was awarded The Comment Awards Independent Blogger of the Year Award 2016. The anonymity of our barrister at the coalface of modern law allows candid freedom to write about how the law functions and fails in Britain today. Pan Macmillan are extremely excited to see this passionate, compelling and moving voice deliver a powerful inside story to the widest possible readership, and at a time where our bastions of justice, however flawed, are under attack. This book is a fascinating glimpse into a hidden world, a passionate defence of the law, a clear-eyed analysis of how and why it's broken, and an explanation of why we urgently need to start caring.
Law's Stories
Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780300074901
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Contributors J. M. Balkin Peter Brooks Harlon L. Dalton Alan M. Dershowitz Daniel A. Farber Robert A. Ferguson Paul Gewirtz John Hollander Anthony Kronman Pierre N. Leval Sanford Levinson Catharine MacKinnon Janet Malcolm Martha Minow David N. Rosen Elaine Scarry Louis Michael Seidman Suzanna Sherry Reva B. Siegel Robert Weisberg
Law's Stories
Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780300066753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
True Stories of Crime from the District Attorney's Office
Author: Arthur Train
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many of the true stories in this book were drawn from cases that the author prosecuted as an attorney.
Criminal Procedure Stories
Author: Carol Susan Steiker
Publisher: Foundation Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unlike casebooks, this title provides rich narrative detail of the human stories -- and the social, political, and legal contexts -- of notable Supreme Court cases on criminal justice. It includes details not available elsewhere, and offers the insights of respected scholars who are experts on the particular cases and issues they address. This book will greatly enhance the teaching both of police practices (a.k.a "Cops and Robbers") and of criminal adjudication (a.k.a "Bail to Jail")
EU Law Stories
Author: Fernanda Nicola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-29
Total Pages: 661
ISBN-13: 1107118891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book retells the multiple stories behind the rulings of the European Court, revealing their context, their history and the legal and non-legal strategies of their actors.
