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Making the Case: The Art of the Judicial Opinion

By Paul W. Kahn

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780300220841
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1645678 bytes)
Pages
288\256
Time added
2023-05-30 06:33:38

Description

Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn’s classic The Bramble Bush, Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure of the judicial opinion. Learning to read the opinion, the student learns the nature of legal argument. Thus Kahn’s exposition of the opinion simultaneously offers a theory of legal meaning that will be of great interest to scholars of law, humanities, and the social sciences. At the center of Kahn’s approach are ideas of narrative, persuasion, and self-government. His sweeping account of interpretation in law offers innovative views of the nature of authorship, the development and decline of doctrine, and the construction of facts.

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