Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction
5. Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law 2
6. The Law as Narrative and Rhetoric 14
7. Part I. Storytelling in Legal Discourse
8. Stories in Law 24
9. Legal Storytelling and Constitutional Law: The Medium and the Message 37
10. Leontius’ Tale 54
11. Storytelling on Its Own Terms 57
12. Part II. The Construction of Cases
13. Proclaiming Trials as Narratives: Premises and Pretenses 61
14. Untold Stories in the Law 84
15. Life Is Not a Dramatic Narrative 99
16. The Side-Bar Conference 106
17. Rhetoric and Result in the Bobby Seale Trial 110
18. Part III. Excludable Stories
19. Storytelling Without Fear? Confession in Law and Literature 114
20. Victims and Voyeurs: Two Narrative Problems at the Criminal Trial 135
21. Some Stories About Confessions and Confessions About Stories 162
22. Speech Acts in Criminal Cases 165
23. Part IV. The Rhetoric of the Judicial Opinion
24. Legal Rhetoric 176
25. The Rhetoric of the Judicial Opinion 187
26. Judicial Opinions as Literature 206
27. A Night in the Topics: The Reason of Legal Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Legal Reason 211
28. In the Eyes of the Law: Reflections on the Authority of Legal Discourse 225
29. Law’s Stories as Reality and Politics 232
30. Notes 239
31. Contributors 279
32. Index 281