Add to ORKGIn the story/counter-story dynamic of criminal trials, trial lawyers need to keep two meaning making strategies in mind: 1) the strategy of narrative seduction, and 2) the strategy of disbelief. An earlier version of this essay was presented in Toronto at the 1995 annual meeting of the Law & Society Association. This material is adapted from a larger work in progress on the relationship between law and popular culture
Sometimes recurring stories are hidden from view and remain beyond the reach of law until they are b...
Few would dispute that law and legal procedures lie at the core of American self-identity and are wo...
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Law is all about human life, yet struggles to keep life at bay. This is especially true of the crimi...
The pupose is to study stories about crime, mythopoesis, via the modalities of speech, text and imag...
This short essay summarizes an understanding of the trial as a medium in which law is realized or ac...
As this symposium demonstrates, criminology has much to offer criminal law and procedure. But there ...
Despite the considerable body of work aimed at showing that law is a form of narrative, these effort...
Wendy Adams’ book is published in Routledge's “Law, Justice, and Power” series, edited by Austin Sar...
America's continuing obsession with the O.J. Simpson case can be explained as a defensive strategy o...
We live in an image society. Since the turn of the 20th century if not earlier, Americans have been ...
The use of narrative in law raises a number of philosophical/jurisprudential issues. Narrative has b...
We have long accepted the role of narrative in fact statements and jury arguments, but in the inner ...
This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis o...
A Review of Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and Judgement in American Culture by W...
Sometimes recurring stories are hidden from view and remain beyond the reach of law until they are b...
Few would dispute that law and legal procedures lie at the core of American self-identity and are wo...
The author looks at ways in which fictional and fictionalised legal stories shape popular attitudes ...
Law is all about human life, yet struggles to keep life at bay. This is especially true of the crimi...
The pupose is to study stories about crime, mythopoesis, via the modalities of speech, text and imag...
This short essay summarizes an understanding of the trial as a medium in which law is realized or ac...
As this symposium demonstrates, criminology has much to offer criminal law and procedure. But there ...
Despite the considerable body of work aimed at showing that law is a form of narrative, these effort...
Wendy Adams’ book is published in Routledge's “Law, Justice, and Power” series, edited by Austin Sar...
America's continuing obsession with the O.J. Simpson case can be explained as a defensive strategy o...
We live in an image society. Since the turn of the 20th century if not earlier, Americans have been ...
The use of narrative in law raises a number of philosophical/jurisprudential issues. Narrative has b...
We have long accepted the role of narrative in fact statements and jury arguments, but in the inner ...
This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis o...
A Review of Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and Judgement in American Culture by W...
Sometimes recurring stories are hidden from view and remain beyond the reach of law until they are b...
Few would dispute that law and legal procedures lie at the core of American self-identity and are wo...
The author looks at ways in which fictional and fictionalised legal stories shape popular attitudes ...