Laws Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice, and Legitimacy - Couverture souple

 
9781119266822: Laws Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice, and Legitimacy

Synopsis

Law's Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination.


  • Represents an innovative approach to interdisciplinary legal scholarship
  • Features new developments in theorizing law's relations with language, society, and culture
  • Includes contributions from European and North American scholars across several relevant disciplines
  • Reveals the prevalence and power of the use of metaphors in the legal profession and in the popular imagination

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À propos de l'auteur

David Gurnham is Associate Professor in Law, University of Southampton, UK. His books include Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture (2014), and Memory, Imagination, Justice: Intersections of Law and Literature (2009).

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