Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Literary Components in the Legal Imagination
6. 1. The U.S. Constitution as Literature 11
7. 2. The Place of Mercy in Legal Discourse 35
8. 3. Immigration Law 65
9. Part Two. The Nature of Judgment
10. 4. Holmes and the Judicial Figure 85
11. 5. The Opinion as Literary Genre 115
12. 6. Ulysses in Government Hands 130
13. Part Three. The Public Uses of Eloquence
14. 7. Lawyer Lincoln: The Making of Eloquence 151
15. 8. Memorialization and the Spirit of Law 188
16. 9. Precision in Persuasion 196
17. Part Four. When Law Fails
18. 10. The Somers Mutiny and the American Ship of State 211
19. 11. Invading Panama 241
20. Coda 265
21. Notes 279
22. Cases Cited 331
23. Index 333