Document Type
Article
Repository Date
2012
Keywords
Trial, nature of law, rhetoric, narrative, drama
Subject Categories
Courts | Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Law | Litigation | Speech and Rhetorical Studies
Abstract
This short essay summarizes an understanding of the trial as a medium in which law is realized or actualized, rather than imposed or enforced. It suggests that we should pay close attention to the actual practices that prevail at trial, its "consciously structured hybrid" of languages and practices, if we want to understand the nature of law.
Repository Citation
Burns, Robert P., "Narrative and Drama in the American Trial" (2012). Faculty Working Papers. 201.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/facultyworkingpapers/201
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