Law Literature And The Power Of Reading
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Law Literature And The Power Of Reading
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Author : Suneel Mehmi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Law Literature And The Power Of Reading written by Suneel Mehmi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with History categories.
At the intersection of law, literature and history, this book interrogates how a dominant contemporary idea of law emerged out of specific ideas of reading in the nineteenth century. Reading shapes our identities. How we read shapes who we are. Reading also shapes our conceptions of what the law is, because the law is also a practice of reading. Focusing on the works of key Victorian writers closely associated with legal practice, this book addresses the way in which the identity of the reader of law has been modelled on the identity of the political elite. At the same time, it shows how other readers of law have been marginalised. The book thus shows how a construction of the law has emerged from the ordering of a power that discriminates between different readers and readings. More specifically, and in response to the emerging media of photography – and, with it, potentially subversive ideas of exposure and visibility – the book shows that there have been dominant, hidden and unrecognised guides to legal reading and to legal thought. And in making these visible, the book also aims to make them contestable. This secret history of law will appeal to legal historians, legal theorists, those working at the intersection of law and literature and others with interests in law and the visual.
The Legal Imagination
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Author : James Boyd White
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1985-12-15
The Legal Imagination written by James Boyd White and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-12-15 with Law categories.
White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it. "A fascinating study of the language of the law. . . . This book is to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to read it, it will broaden the mind, and give lawyers a new insight into their role."—New Law Journal
The 48 Laws Of Power
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Author : Robert Greene
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-10-31
The 48 Laws Of Power written by Robert Greene and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Self-Help categories.
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
Judicial Uses Of Images
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Author : Peter Goodrich
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-17
Judicial Uses Of Images written by Peter Goodrich and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-17 with Law categories.
A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat. A while later he inserts these photographs into a decision involving another insufflated rodent used in a union protest. The increasing use of images in case law and precedent in the common law world provides a novel visual atlas of how lawyers see. Using a corpus of many images drawn from decisions in different common law jurisdictions across the globe, Judicial Uses of Images catalogues, analyzes, and reviews the normative significance and affective force of this new medium of legal expression and judgement. The remediation of law is critically dissected in the terms of the emergent optical criteria and protocols of retinal justice. .
Teaching Law And Literature
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Author : Austin Sarat
language : en
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Teaching Law And Literature written by Austin Sarat and has been published by Modern Language Association of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume provides a resource for teachers interested in learning about the field of law and literature and shows how to bring its insights to bear in their classrooms, both in the liberal arts and in law schools. Essays in the first section, "Theory and History of the Movement," provide a retrospective of the field and look forward to new developments. The second section, "Model Courses," offers readers an array of possibilities for structuring courses that integrate legal issues with the study of literature, from The Canterbury Tales to current prison literature. In "Texts," the third section, guidance is provided for teaching not only written documents (novels, plays, trial reports) but also cultural objects: digital media, Native American ceremonies, documentary theater, hip-hop. The volume's forty-one contributors investigate what constitutes law and literature and how each informs the other.
Testimony And Advocacy In Victorian Law Literature And Theology
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Author : Jan-Melissa Schramm
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-20
Testimony And Advocacy In Victorian Law Literature And Theology written by Jan-Melissa Schramm and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-20 with History categories.
Examines how the changing role of evidence in law and theology shaped nineteenth-century literary narrative.
The Law S Universal Condemning And Enslaving Power
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Author : Bryan Blazosky
language : en
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Release Date : 2019
The Law S Universal Condemning And Enslaving Power written by Bryan Blazosky and has been published by Eisenbrauns this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Religion categories.
Explores Paul's view of the Mosaic law's relationship to Gentile Christians, and explores the logic of Paul's approach, comparing his view on this issue to views found in the Old Testament and Second Temple Jewish literature.
Just Words
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Author : John M. Conley
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1998-08
Just Words written by John M. Conley and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, JUST WORDS focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research--what language reveals about the nature of legal power.
The Criminal Spectre In Law Literature And Aesthetics
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Author : Peter J. Hutchings
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-23
The Criminal Spectre In Law Literature And Aesthetics written by Peter J. Hutchings and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-23 with Social Science categories.
This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, became an obsession which haunted nineteenth century thought.
Reading For The Law
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Author : Christine L. Krueger
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Reading For The Law written by Christine L. Krueger and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking her title from the British term for legal study, "to read for the law," Christine L. Krueger asks how "reading for the law" as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. She argues that a multidisciplinary "historical narrative jurisprudence" strengthens narrative legal theorists' claims for the transformative powers of stories by replacing an ahistorical opposition between literature and law with a history of their interdependence, and their embeddedness in print culture. Focusing on gender and feminist advocacy in the long nineteenth century, Reading for the Law demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of "outsider jurisprudence." Krueger develops this argument across discussions of key jurisprudential concepts: precedent, agency, testimony, and motive. She draws from a wide range of literary, legal, and historical sources, from the early modern period through the Victorian age, as well as from contemporary literary, feminist, and legal theory. Topics considered include the legacy of witchcraft prosecutions, the evolution of the Reasonable Man standard of evidence in lunacy inquiries, the fate of female witnesses and pro se litigants, advocacy for female prisoners and infanticide defendants, and defense strategies for men accused of indecent assault and sodomy. The saliency of the nineteenth-century British literary culture stems in part from its place in a politico-legal tradition that produces the very conditions of narrative legal theorists’ aspirations for meaningful social transformation in modern, multicultural democracies.