Law�s Metaphors

Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-119-26682-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gurnham, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fachsprachen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Law's Metaphors: Introduction (David Gurnham)

2. Metaphor as Analogy: Reproduction and Production of Legal Concepts (Angela Condello)

3. The Metaphor of Proportionality (Nicola Lacey)

4. Flesh of the Law: Material Legal Metaphors (Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos)

5. The Trials of Lizzie Eustace: Trollope, Sensationalism, and the Condition of English Law (Ian Ward)

6. M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!: Metaphors, Laws, and Fugues of Justice (Anne Que'ma)

7. 'We Want to Live': Metaphor and Ethical Life in F.W. Maitland's Jurisprudence of the Trust (Adam Gearey)

8. Debating Rape: To Whom does the Uncanny 'Myth' Metaphor Belong? (David Gurnham)

9. Is the Blush off the Rose? Legal Education Metaphors in a Changing World (Michelle LeBaron)

Über Autor(innen)

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).