Author: V. K. VaradachariPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice
Author: Maksymilian Del MarPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319092324
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional collection offers the first ever full-scale analysis of legal fictions. Its focus is on fictions in legal practice, examining and evaluating their roles in a variety of different areas of practice (e.g. in Tort Law, Criminal Law and Intellectual Property Law) and in different times and places (e.g. in Roman Law, Rabbinic Law and the Common Law). The collection approaches the topic in part through the discussion of certain key classical statements by theorists including Jeremy Bentham, Alf Ross, Hans Vaihinger, Hans Kelsen and Lon Fuller. The collection opens with the first-ever translation into English of Kelsen’s review of Vaihinger’s As If. The 17 chapters are divided into four parts: 1) a discussion of the principal theories of fictions, as above, with a focus on Kelsen, Bentham, Fuller and classical pragmatism; 2) a discussion of the relationship between fictions and language; 3) a theoretical and historical examination and evaluation of fictions in the common law; and 4) an account of fictions in different practice areas and in different legal cultures. The collection will be of interest to theorists and historians of legal reasoning, as well as scholars and practitioners of the law more generally, in both common and civil law traditions.
Legal Fictions in Private Law
Author: Liron ShmilovitsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316519473
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Offers an algorithmic solution to the problem of legal fictions: enter a fiction and find the answer.
Legal Fictions
Author: Karla FC HollowayPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377055
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as structured by evidence law, and Nella Larsen's Passing as intimately related to contract law. Holloway engages the intentional, contradictory, and capricious constructions of race embedded in the law with the same energy that she brings to her masterful interpretations of fiction by U.S. writers. Her readings shed new light on the many ways that black U.S. authors have reframed fundamental questions about racial identity, personhood, and the law from the nineteenth into the twenty-first centuries. Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that the black body is thoroughly bound by law and an unflinching look at the implications of that claim.
Legal Fictions
Author: Jay WishengradPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780879515409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Essential reading for literary lawyers as well as the general reader, Legal Fictions is a comprehensive and entertaining literary look at a perennially fascinating and controversial subject - lawyers and the law.
Legal Fictions
Author: V. K. VaradachariPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Legal Fictions
Author: Lon L. FullerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804703277
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Legal Fictions
Author: Lon L. FullerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804703284
Category : Fictions (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Legal Fictions
Author: Alfred Laurence PolakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Legal Fictions
Author: Jay WishingradPublisher:
ISBN: 9780704302501
Category : Legal stories
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Thirty-five stories covering themes of guilt and innocence, morality and legality. By authors that include Margaret Atwood, Franz Kafka, Nadine Gordimer and Graham Greene.
The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie
Author: Lowell B. KomiePublisher: Swordfish Chicago Publisher
ISBN: 9780964195752
Category : Legal stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Since the Louis Auchincloss collections of the 1950s and 1960s, there have been few collections of legal short fiction written by a practicing American lawyer outside the genres of crime and legal thriller fiction. Here is a new collection by Lowell B. Komie of Chicago, published to celebrate his fiftieth year in the practice of law. Lowell B. Komie's first collection of short stories, The Judge's Chambers, was published by the American Bar Association in 1983. It was the first collection of fiction published by the ABA in its more than 100-year history. His second collection, The Lawyer's Chambers and Other Stories, published by Swordfish Chicago in 1995, won the Carl Sandburg Award for fiction from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. This new collection of twenty-nine stories, The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie, centered in Chicago, brings together many of the stories in those collections with new stories that have been published since the earlier volumes, the latest having been written in 2004.