Fictional Discourse and the Law

Herausgeber: Lind, Hans J

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and unique perspective of fictional discourse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032236681
• ISBN-10: 103223668X
• Artikelnr.: 62952754

Autorenporträt

Hans Jochen Lind (Ph.D. Yale University) is a Lecturer and, since 2003, Attorney-at-Law. He teaches German Literature, Theatre Studies and Media Studies at Yale University and at Vienna University's Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies. He was a Fulbright Scholar (2004-2005) and a Giamatti-Fellow at Yale University (2005-2006), and later acted as coordinator of the Yale Whitney Humanities Center's working group "Fictionality - Interdisciplinary Approaches. Law - Literature - Science" (2010-2013). Legal clerking included the 5th Civil Chamber of Appeal (Law Clerk to Presiding Judge Basel).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Part I. From Narrative to Fiction in Legal Theory and Practice
Chapter 1 Theorizing Fictional Discourse: Toward a Re-Assessment of the
Fact-Fiction-Dichotomy in Legal Theory and Practice (Hans Lind)
Part II. The Ubiquity of Fictional Discourse in Legal Theory and Practice
Chapter 2.1 Fictions of Constitutional Privacy: Toward a Linguistic Subject
(Cynthia Merrill)
Chapter 2.2 Adultery, Criminality and the Fiction of the King's Body (Erin
Sheley)
Chapter 2.3 Memory, History, and Forgetting: Shelby County v. Alabama
(Laura Cisneros)
Chapter 2.4. Deconstructing the Fiction of Contract (Tal Kastner)
Part III. A Matter of Evidence? Fact and Fiction in the Courtroom
Chapter 3.1 Dying Declarations (Peter Brooks)
Chapter 3.2 Rap as Courtroom Reality (Hans Lind)
Chapter 3.3 Fiction as Courtroom Fact? Exploration Accounts as Evidence in
Aboriginal Rights and Title Litigation (Luis Campos)
Part IV: Fictional Discourse as Law's Mirror and Cradle: Metafictional
Qualities of Law in Literature
Chapter 4.1 'A Fearful and Wonderful Institution': Representing Law in
Sensational Novels (Sara Murphy)
Chapter 4.2 Fictions of Corporate Intention: The Epistemological Problem of
the Good Corporation (Lisa Siraganian)
Chapter 4.3 Remedial Fictions: The Novelization of Habeas Corpus and the
History of Human Rights (Sarah Winter)
Part V: Fictional Discourse and the Law: A Theoretical Perspective
Chapter 5.1 Legal Fictions and Legal Fabrication (Simon Stern)
Chapter 5.2 Linguistic Fictions and Legal Rule (Hans Lind)
Chapter 5.3 Cognitive Fictionalizing and Legal Legitimacy (Karen Petroski)
Chapter 5.4 Law as Authoritative Fiction (Andrei Marmor)