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Of Victims, Villains And Fairy Godmothers: Regnant Tales Of Predatory Lending, Carolyn Grose
Of Victims, Villains And Fairy Godmothers: Regnant Tales Of Predatory Lending, Carolyn Grose
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The subprime mortgage crisis has exposed a system of predatory and irresponsible lending on a scale we are only beginning to comprehend. Those initially harmed in this crisis – the canaries in the coal mine – were largely low-income people of color. As the crisis has unfolded, the potential solutions available to such borrowers seem to privilege one kind of legal story over all others: the story of the poor person as a victim in need of rescuing.
In order to win, therefore, lawyers who represent these clients often fall back on a default narrative about their clients as unwitting …
'Wishin And Hopin And Thinkin And Prayin, Plannin And Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[Ies] Of Predatory Lending, Carolyn Grose
'Wishin And Hopin And Thinkin And Prayin, Plannin And Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[Ies] Of Predatory Lending, Carolyn Grose
carolyn grose
This is an article that uses a predatory lending case as a vehicle to examine the metaphor of the lawyer as storyteller. For many years and in many law reviews now, we have been reading and writing about the relationship between narrative and story and the law. I add my voice once again to this discussion by examining more closely this idea that as representors of clients, lawyers are constructors and tellers of stories. Specifically, I examine the process lawyers go through and the choices lawyers make in figuring out what stories to tell and how to tell them.
The …