Introduction

PART I: Law and Narrative: Reexamining the Relationship

Describing Law in Terms of Autonomy

Narrative as the Basis of Law and the Humanities

Shelley’s Case, Part 1: Law of The Jungle

Shelley’s Case, Part 2: Silent Spring

Law, Literature, and Narrative

What is Narrative?

How Narratives Interact to Influence Legislation

Text in Context

What’s Truth Have to Do with It?

Whose Story to Believe?

PART II: Institutionalizing Narratives

Narrative and the Normative Syllogism

The Narrative Nudge

When Narratives Clash

Changes in Narrative, Changes in Law

Law’s Constraints: Genetic or Precedential?

Novelizing Law

Resisting Narratives: Keeping the Outside Out

Absorbing Narratives: Letting the Outside In

What Law Can Learn from Literature (and History)

PART III: Law, Narrative, and Democracy

The Rule of Law and Its Limits

Toward a Democratic Rule of Law

The Jury as a Structural Safeguard of Democracy

The Democratic Role of Interpretive Communities

A Study in Contrasts: The Rodney King and O.J. Simpson Juries

Is Jury Nullification Democratic and Within the Rule of Law?

Some Thoughts on Democratic Interpretation

PART IV: Narrative as Democratic Reasoning

The Narrative Shape of Deliberation

Law-as-Discipline

The Problem with Appellate Practice and Appellate Opinions

(Re)Introducing Narratives in the Classroom

Democratic Education, Private Reason, and the Law

A Conclusion of Sorts

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Randy D. Gordon is an adjunct professor in the Dedman School of Law and a lecturer in English at Southern Methodist University. He is a partner in the Complex Litigation Group of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP.

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