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Law�s Metaphors

Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-119-26682-2
Verlag: Wiley
Erscheinungstermin: 14.03.2016
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Law’s Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination.

- Represents an innovative approach to interdisciplinary legal scholarship
- Features new developments in theorizing law’s relations with language, society, and culture
- Includes contributions from European and North American scholars across several relevant disciplines
- Reveals the prevalence and power of the use of metaphors in the legal profession and in the popular imagination


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781119266822
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-119-26682-2
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Erscheinungstermin: 14.03.2016
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
  • Serie: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 204 g
  • Seiten: 176
  • Format (B x H x T): 150 x 226 x 10 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

1. Law's Metaphors: Introduction (David Gurnham)

2. Metaphor as Analogy: Reproduction and Production of Legal Concepts (Angela Condello)

3. The Metaphor of Proportionality (Nicola Lacey)

4. Flesh of the Law: Material Legal Metaphors (Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos)

5. The Trials of Lizzie Eustace: Trollope, Sensationalism, and the Condition of English Law (Ian Ward)

6. M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!: Metaphors, Laws, and Fugues of Justice (Anne Que'ma)

7. 'We Want to Live': Metaphor and Ethical Life in F.W. Maitland's Jurisprudence of the Trust (Adam Gearey)

8. Debating Rape: To Whom does the Uncanny 'Myth' Metaphor Belong? (David Gurnham)

9. Is the Blush off the Rose? Legal Education Metaphors in a Changing World (Michelle LeBaron)