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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
List of contents
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)
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
