Law's cosmos juridical discourse in Athenian forensic oratory /

"Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law has lost its connection to poetic language, narrative, and imagination. But modern legal scholar...

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Autore principale: Wohl, Victoria, 1966-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Sommario:
  • The world of law : oratory and authority
  • Legal violence and the limit of justice
  • Legal fictions : subjects probable and improbable
  • Logos biou : law's life stories
  • Civic amnesia and legal memory : remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts
  • Family/law : legal genealogies.