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2005

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20 Years (Or 2000?) Of Story-Telling On The Law: Is Justice Detectable?, Richard H. Weisberg Jan 2005

20 Years (Or 2000?) Of Story-Telling On The Law: Is Justice Detectable?, Richard H. Weisberg

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This paper was offered as the keynote address at a conference in April of 2004 at the Cardozo Law School upon the 20th anniversary of the publication of Richard Weisberg's The Failure of the Word: the Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction (New Haven: Yale U Press, 1984). Weisberg first gives an account of the critical reception of his book, both in literary and legal circles and then situates the book - via a reading of Derrida's Force of Law - as inevitably troubling both to liberal readers such as Brook Thomas and more conservative ones such as Richard Posner. …


Failure Of The Word: The Rise Of Law And Literature, Arthur J. Jacobson Jan 2005

Failure Of The Word: The Rise Of Law And Literature, Arthur J. Jacobson

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