ICYMI: Sherwin on The Narrative Construction of Legal Reality @RKSherwin @NYLawSchool @VTLawReview

ICYMI: Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published The Narrative Construction of Legal Reality at 18 Vt. L. Rev. 681 (1994). Here is the abstract.

If reality and meaning depend, to a significant extent, on perceptual and cognitive constructions, it becomes of no small interest to learn what interpretive frameworks are at work in specific legal contexts. One way to express this inquiry is to ask: what kinds of stories, and what modes of storytelling, are being used by lawyers, judges, and others within the legal system to construct and convey meaning? This path of inquiry leads to a heightened awareness of competing rhetorics and strategies of narration. Such awareness may operate on the plane of broad principle and decontextualized abstraction or on the level of local voices, proper names, and particularized dramas.

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