To Speak As a Judge - Difference, Voice and Power

List of contents

1. Speaking and Judging. 2. Authority and the Voice of the Other. 3. Speaking Law and Rendering Judgement. 4. The Subversive Moment. 5. Free Will and the Judge as Subject. 6. From Polyvocality to Narrative Coherence. 7. Texts, Authority and the Force of Law. 8. Judgment as Rhetoric. 9. To Speak as a Judge/Woman: A Different Voice? 10. Justice, Finally.

About the author

Sandra Berns, Faculty of Law, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Summary

First published in 1999, this volume explores the nature of adjudication in the common law tradition from a feminist postmodernist perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Berns, Berns Sandra
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138393493
• ISBN: 978-1-138-39349-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LAW / General, Philosophy, Gender studies, gender groups, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law