1st Edition
Fiction and the Languages of Law Understanding Contemporary Legal Discourse
Chapter 1: Three Ways of Reading a Term
Chapter 2: Fear of Fiction
Chapter 3: Real People, Fictional Characters, Legal Phantoms
Chapter 4: Big Personalities
Chapter 5: Virtual Realities
Chapter 6: Reading the Layers of Law
Biography
Dr Karen Petroski, St Louis University School of Law, USA, has been teaching law since 2008 and is trained in both literary analysis and law. She has published several articles and book chapters on legal fictions and the relationship between fictional and legal discourse, including chapters in Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice (ed. Maksymilian Del Mar & William Twining, Springer, 2015) and The Nature of Legal Interpretation: What Jurists Can Learn About Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy (ed. Brian Slocum, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017).
