Making the Case
The Art of the Judicial Opinion
1st Edition
Published on 26. April 2016
257 pages
978-0-300-22084-1 (ISBN)
Available for download
Description
Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn's classic The Bramble Bush, Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure of the judicial opinion. Learning to read the opinion, the student learns the nature of legal argument. Thus Kahn's exposition of the opinion simultaneously offers a theory of legal meaning that will be of great interest to scholars of law, humanities, and the social sciences. At the center of Kahn's approach are ideas of narrative, persuasion, and self-government. His sweeping account of interpretation in law offers innovative views of the nature of authorship, the development and decline of doctrine, and the construction of facts.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
06/2016
Yale University Press
€43.33
Article exhausted; check different version
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- A Preface for Students, with a Note to Everyone Else
- Acknowledgments
- One: Why Read the Opinions?
- Two: The Opinion and Narrative
- Three: Unity: The Judicial Voice
- Four: Legal Doctrine: Between Erudition and Fundamentalism
- Five: Facts: Stating the Case
- Conclusion: Making the Case for a Humanist Study of the Law
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
