Law, Narrative, Narratology
Interdisciplinary Essays
$82.92
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
Explores the diverse applications of narrative in law beyond the courtroom, from client-lawyer interactions to legal decisions
Once regarded by law professors as serving an ornamental purpose in legal argumentation, narrative has gained an increasingly prominent role in legal scholarship. Yet while scholars have examined the many functions and effects of narrative in legal decisions, courtroom arguments, and the stories we tell about the law, research on law and narra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479847266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479847267 |
| Author: | Simon Stern, Greta Olson |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Researchers in the legal humanities may agree that narrative plays an important role in law, but work can be hampered by conceptual imprecision. Law, Narrative, Narratology offers a refreshing and inspiring perspective by virtue of its genuine multivocality and by the important intellectual advances made by the editors and contributing authors.”–David Gurnham, author of Crime, Desire, and Law’s Unconscious
About The Author
Simon Stern
Simon Stern (Editor)
Simon Stern is Professor of Law and English at the University of Toronto and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities and The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America.
Greta Olson (Editor)
Greta Olson is Professor of English and American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen and the author of From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect.
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