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Minding the Law by Anthony G. Amsterdam, Jerome Bruner (Paperback, 2002)

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In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psychologists to put American constitutional law into an American cultural context. By close readings of key Supreme Court opinions, they show how storytelling tactics and deeply rooted mythic structures shape the Court's decisions about race, family law, and the death penalty. Minding the Law explores crucial psychological processes involved in the work of lawyers and judges: deciding whether particular cases fit within a legal rule ( categorizing ), telling stories to justify one's claims or undercut those of an adversary ( narrative ), and tailoring one's language to be persuasive without appearing partisan ( rhetorics ). Because these processes are not unique to the law, courts' decisions cannot rest solely upon legal logic but must also depend vitally upon the underlying culture's storehouse of familiar tales of heroes and villains. But a culture's stock of stories is not changeless. Amsterdam and Bruner argue that culture itself is a dialectic constantly in progress, a conflict between the established canon and newly imagined possible worlds. They illustrate the swings of this dialectic by a masterly analysis of the Supreme Court's race-discrimination decisions during the past century. A passionate plea for heightened consciousness about the way law is practiced and made, Minding the Law will be welcomed by a new generation concerned with renewing law's commitment to a humane justice.

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Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674008168
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95176079

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Subject Area
Constitutional Law
Author
Anthony G. Amsterdam, Jerome Bruner
Publication Name
Minding the Law
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Law
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
468 Pages

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235mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
640g

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Jerome Bruner, Anthony G. Amsterdam
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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