The role of narratives in legal contexts has been explored in multidisciplinary research for several decades. A common claim in this research is that the understanding of narratives is crucial to the understanding of any legal process, especially to most representations of the facts in a criminal case. It seems justified to say that law’s cultural foundations and presuppositions are always in some way or another manifested in its narratives and acts of narration. The research conducted within the field of law and narrative helps to expand our knowledge of the multiple ways in which legal thinking and decision-making rely on narrative, in both senses of the term. It also enhances our understanding of how narratives are put to use as rhetorical tools, both in the courtroom and in the court’s written judgments. The contributions to this volume present the field of law and narrative as it exists today and expand the area of inquest into fields like text linguistics, speech act theories, ordinary language theory, public international law, artificial intelligence and various media transformations of law stories.
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Publication year
2021
Publication date
01.06.2021
ISBN-Print
978-3-465-04555-7
ISBN-Online
978-3-465-14555-4
Publisher
Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series
Recht als Kultur
Volume
26
Language
English
Pages
384
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Law as Narration in Light of the Law as Culture Paradigm No access Pages 7 - 10 W. Gephart
Why Narrative (Still) Matters No access Pages 11 - 26 F.H. Pedersen, E. Ingebrigtsen
Judicial Narration as Explanation of Facts and Circumstances No access Pages 27 - 62 J. Gaakeer
The Court’s Story of Facts. A Narratological Approach to the Narrative in the Judgment No access Pages 63 - 92 F.H. Pedersen
Representation of Speech Events in Criminal Judgments No access Pages 93 - 110 E. Ingebrigtsen
Narrated History in Judgements: Examples from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia No access Pages 111 - 138 M. Weck
Underlying Narratives in Courtroom Exchanges No access Pages 139 - 154 L.N. Hjorth
Narration or Subsumption? Two Operations of Imputing Crime and Punishment No access Pages 155 - 170 W. Gephart
Peeking Through the Keyhole: Using Narratives to Explain Legal Reason No access Pages 171 - 188 H.P. Graver
Forces Beyond Linear Reasoning: The Evidentiary Power of Narrative in Wrongful Conviction Cases No access Pages 189 - 218 R. Grunewald
Narratives on Assault in Investigation, Trial and Judgment – Analysis of the Argumentation in the Judicial Process No access Pages 219 - 252 G. Byrman, J. Lindh
Stories, Law, and Justice – on the Place of Narratives in the Field of Law and Humanities No access Pages 253 - 274 A. Linneberg
How to Tell the Story of a Trial – Media Transformation in Court Reporting No access Pages 275 - 298 C. Löwe, B. Schirrmacher
The CSI Effect and the Narrative of the Adversarial Criminal Process No access Pages 299 - 324 I. Marković
Constructing the Human-Robot Relationship: Stories of Ability and Fear in Cases of Criminal Liability for Driving Aids in Automobiles No access Pages 325 - 356 H. Whalen-Bridge
Using Artificial Intelligence in Narratives in the Criminal Process No access Pages 357 - 380 C. Meng Lam
