Law's cosmos : juridical discourse in Athenian forensic oratory / / Victoria Wohl.
"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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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 362 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.