Constitutional Law as Fiction - Narrative in the Rhetoric of Authority

About the author

L. H. LaRue is Class of 1958 Alumni Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University. He is the author of A Student's Guide to the Study of Law: An Introduction (1987) and Political Discourse: A Case Study of the Watergate Affair (1988) and co-editor (with Wythe Holt) of Rewriting the History of the Judiciary Act of 1787 by Wilfred J. Ritz (1990).

Summary

This text argues that the written opinion that explains a judgment is much like fiction, in the sense of it being a constructed meaning. Using several Supreme Court cases the author examines rhetorical techniques and contends that judges must not abandon their "fictions" but strive to improve them.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis H. LaRue, LaRue Lewis H.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1995
• EAN: 9780271014074
• ISBN: 978-0-271-01407-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; USA, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Legal Profession, United States of America, USA, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Legal profession: general, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Legal profession / practice of law: general