Literary Criticisms of Law

by Robert W. Weisberg, Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg

Book Overview

In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as literary innovators, who creatively interpret legal authority, narrate disputed facts and hypothetical fictions, represent persons before the law, move...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691007241
• ISBN13: 9780691007243
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"