Hanne M., Weisberg R. (Eds.) Narrative and Metaphor in the Law

Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 440 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-42279-6.It has long been recognized that court trials in the common law system, both criminal and civil, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal theory and practice. Interest in the part played by metaphor in the law, including metaphors for the law, and for many standard concepts in legal practice, has also been strong, though research under the metaphor banner has been much more fragmentary. In this book, for the first time, a distinguished group of legal scholars, collaborating with specialists from cognitive theory, journalism, rhetoric, social psychology, criminology, and legal activism, explore how narrative and metaphor are both vital to the legal process. Together, they examine topics including concepts of law, legal persuasion, human rights law, gender in the law, innovations in legal thinking, legal activism, creative work around the law, and public debate around crime and punishment.Narrative, Metaphor, and Concepts of Justice and Legal Systems
On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse
What’s It Like? Native Americans and the Ambivalence of Legal Metaphors
Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Persuasion
Metaphoric Parable: The Nexus of Metaphor and Narrative in Persuasive Legal Writing
Embodied Metaphor in Persuasive Legal Narrative
Narrative and Metaphor in Judicial Opinions
Narrative in the Legal Text: Judicial Opinions and Their Narratives
Legal Stories, the Reality Effect, and Visual Narratives: A Response to Simon Stern
Narrative, Metaphor, And Gender In The Law
Gender Justice: The Role of Stories and Images
Narrative, Metaphor, and Innovations in Legal Thinking
The “Crime as a Disease” Metaphor: Vision, Power, and Collaboration in Social Problems Research
The Fertility (sic) of the Crime/Disease Linkage for Metaphor and Narrative: Response to Potter
Narrative and MetaphoriIn Public Debate Around Crime and Punishment
Narrative Conventions in Crime Reporting
Metaphors, Stories, and Media Framing of Crime: Response to Lithwick
Narrative and Metaphor in Human Rights Law
When Rights-Talk Meets Queue-Talk
The Cutters and the Others
Through Narrative and by Metaphor: Creating a Lawyer-Self in Poetry and Prose
Secrets of Civility in Lawyerland
A Conversation with Mari Matsuda