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Once Upon A Time In Law: Myth, Metaphor, And Authority, Linda H. Edwards
Once Upon A Time In Law: Myth, Metaphor, And Authority, Linda H. Edwards
Linda H. Edwards
We have long accepted the role of narrative in fact statements and jury arguments, but in the inner sanctum of analyzing legal authority? Surely not. Yet cases, statutes, rules, and doctrines have stories too. When we talk about legal authority, using all our best formal logic and its bedfellows of analogy and policy, we are actually swimming in a sea of narrative, oblivious to the water around us. As the old Buddhist saying goes, we don’t know who discovered the ocean, but it probably wasn’t a fish.
This article teases out several familiar archetypes hidden in discussions of cases and …
Once Upon A Time In Law: Myth, Metaphor, And Authority, Linda H. Edwards
Once Upon A Time In Law: Myth, Metaphor, And Authority, Linda H. Edwards
Linda H. Edwards
We have long accepted the role of narrative in fact statements and jury arguments, but in the inner sanctum of analyzing legal authority? Surely not. Yet cases, statutes, rules, and doctrines have stories too. When we talk about legal authority, using all our best formal logic and its bedfellows of analogy and policy, we are actually swimming in a sea of narrative, oblivious to the water around us. As the old Buddhist saying goes, we don’t know who discovered the ocean, but it probably wasn’t a fish.
This article teases out several familiar archetypes hidden in discussions of cases and …
Once Upon A Time In Law: Myth, Metaphor, And Authority, Linda H. Edwards
Once Upon A Time In Law: Myth, Metaphor, And Authority, Linda H. Edwards
Linda H. Edwards
We have long accepted the role of narrative in fact statements and jury arguments, but in the inner sanctum of analyzing legal authority? Surely not. Yet cases, statutes, rules, and doctrines have stories too. When we talk about legal authority, using all our best formal logic and its bedfellows of analogy and policy, we are actually swimming in a sea of narrative, oblivious to the water around us. As the old Buddhist saying goes, we don’t know who discovered the ocean, but it probably wasn’t a fish.
This article teases out several familiar archetypes hidden in discussions of cases and …
Once Upon A Time In Law: Myth, Metaphor, And Authority, Linda H. Edwards
Once Upon A Time In Law: Myth, Metaphor, And Authority, Linda H. Edwards
Linda H. Edwards
We have long accepted the role of narrative in fact statements and jury arguments, but in the inner sanctum of analyzing legal authority? Surely not. Yet cases, statutes, rules, and doctrines have stories too. When we talk about legal authority, using all our best formal logic and its bedfellows of analogy and policy, we are actually swimming in a sea of narrative, oblivious to the water around us. As the old Buddhist saying goes, we don’t know who discovered the ocean, but it probably wasn’t a fish.
This article teases out several familiar archetypes hidden in discussions of cases and …