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Creating legal worlds [electronic resource] : story and style in a culture of argument / Greig Henderson

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Henderson, Greig E.
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
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x, 180 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents
The cost of persuasion: figure, story, and eloquence in the rhetoric of judicial discourse -- Pure and impure styles: formalism and pragmatism in the language of decision writing -- The perils of analogy: legal world-making and judicial self fashioning in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad -- Murder, they wrote: the rhetoric of causation in the language of the law -- Narrative theory and the art of judgment: the anatomy of a Supreme Court decision -- The look in his eyes: Rusk v. State, State v. Rusk -- Rhetoric, philosophy, and law -- Postscript: rhetoric, postmodernism, and skepticism.
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ISBN
9781442637085 (hardback : acid-free paper)
1442637080 (hardback : acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.
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