Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law

by Peter Brooks (Editor), Paul D. Gewirtz (Editor)

This important volume brings together an exceptional group of well-known figures in law and literary studies to take a probing look at how and why stories are told in the law and how they are constructed and made effective.

Genres: Law, History

298 pages, Hardcover

First published April 24, 1996

About the author

Peter Brooks is the author of Henry James Goes to Paris, Realist Vision, Troubling Confessions, Reading for the Plot, The Melodramatic Imagination, and a number of other books, including the historical novel World Elsewhere. He taught for many years at Yale, where he was Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, and currently is Andrew W. Mellon Scholar at Princeton.

Reviews

[Robert Graves]

A nice collection of articles that I'm sure I'll dip into time and time again.

[Susan Klinke]

had to return to the library. Will pick it up later.