Minding the Law
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674008162 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 468 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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MrGrave said Accute content, it was a present for a friend.. He loves it, he's into law, so coming from him I appreciate his input. Hes says this book is quite "instructional" and makes you THINK like a law-connoisseur not quite as a lawyer, but I guess he refers to the way it makes you think in terms of law (not justice) though. He's and my two cents so that's Accute content, it was a present for a friend. MrGrave He loves it, he's into law, so coming from him I appreciate his input. Hes says this book is quite "instructional" and makes you THINK like a law-connoisseur not quite as a lawyer, but I guess he refers to the way it makes you think in terms of law (not justice) though. He's and my two cents so that's 4 between us.. between us.. Alan Mills said Fascinating Take on Judicial Opinion-writing. Rejecting the usual approach to analyzing case law by first describing the facts, and then reciting the court's decision, Amsterdam and Bruner dig deeper, and describe the hidden decisions which are made when courts (and by inference, lawyers) decide what the "facts" are--and how they are presented. Their hypothesis is that those choices--while virtually never acknowledged, either consciously or unconsciously determine the ultimate decision in a case.One of the examples chosen is a pre-Civil War case holding that states did not have the right to interfere with slave catchers seek
From Booklist Perhaps the most unusual is the pairing of law professor Amsterdam and cultural psychologist Bruner, both of New York University, in a study that grows out of the "lawyering theory" seminar they have team-taught for 10 years. Mary CarrollCopyright © American Library Association. After discussing each subject (categories, narrative, rhetorics, and the dialectic of culture), they explore its operation in one or two significant Supreme Court decisions, "unearthing concealed presuppositions, categorical pitfalls, narrative predilections, rhetorical constructions, cultural biases." Such interpretive dilemmas, they suggest, are inevitable
In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psychologists to put American constitutional law into an American cultural context. Because these processes are not unique to the law, courts' decisions cannot rest solely upon legal logic but must also depend vitally upon the underlying culture's storehouse of familiar tales of heroes and villains.But a culture's stock of stories is not changeless. By close readings of key Supreme Court opinions, they show how storytelling tactics and deeply rooted mythic structures