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Judging Stories, Noah Novogrodsky
Judging Stories, Noah Novogrodsky
Noah B Novogrodsky
Judging Stories Abstract This Article uses the confluence of incitement to genocide and hate speech in a single case to explore the power of stories in law. That power defines how we see the world, how we form communities of meaning and how we speak to one another. Previous commentators have recognized that law is infused with stories, from the narratives of litigants, to the rhetoric of lawyers, to the tales that judges interpret and create in the form of written opinions. This Article builds on those insights to address the problems posed by transnational speech and the question of …