
Rehumanizing Law
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Randy D. Gordon illustrates the bridge between narrative and law by considering whether literature can prompt legislation. Using Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Gordon shows that literary works can figure in important regulatory measures. Discussing the rule of law in relation to democracy, he reads Melville's Billy Budd and analyzes the O.J. Simpson and Rodney King cases.
This highly original and creative study reconnects the law to its narrative roots by showing how and why stories become laws.
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PART I: Law and Narrative: Reexamining the Relationship
Describing Law in Terms of Autonomy
Narrative as the Basis of Law and the Humanities
Shelley's Case, Part 1: Law of The Jungle
Shelley's Case, Part 2: Silent Spring
Law, Literature, and Narrative
What is Narrative?
How Narratives Interact to Influence Legislation
Text in Context
What's Truth Have to Do with It?
Whose Story to Believe?
PART II: Institutionalizing Narratives
Narrative and the Normative Syllogism
The Narrative Nudge
When Narratives Clash
Changes in Narrative, Changes in Law
Law's Constraints: Genetic or Precedential?
Novelizing Law
Resisting Narratives: Keeping the Outside Out
Absorbing Narratives: Letting the Outside In
What Law Can Learn from Literature (and History)
PART III: Law, Narrative, and Democracy
The Rule of Law and Its Limits
Toward a Democratic Rule of Law
The Jury as a Structural Safeguard of Democracy
The Democratic Role of Interpretive Communities
A Study in Contrasts: The Rodney King and O.J. Simpson Juries
Is Jury Nullification Democratic and Within the Rule of Law?
Some Thoughts on Democratic Interpretation
PART IV: Narrative as Democratic Reasoning
The Narrative Shape of Deliberation
Law-as-Discipline
The Problem with Appellate Practice and Appellate Opinions
(Re)Introducing Narratives in the Classroom
Democratic Education, Private Reason, and the Law
A Conclusion of Sorts
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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