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Pragmatism and judicial choice / Denis J. Brion.

Title
Pragmatism and judicial choice / Denis J. Brion.
Author
Brion, Denis J.
Publication
New York : P. Lang, ©2003.

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Description
xxxiii, 309 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Critic of institutions, 1068-4689 ; v. 11
Uniform Title
Critic of institutions v. 11.
Subject
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Droit > États-Unis > Interprétation
  • Judicial process
  • Judicial process > United States
  • Law > Interpretation and construction
  • Law > United States > Interpretation and construction
  • Pragmatism
  • Pragmatism
  • Pragmatisme
  • Processus judiciaire > États-Unis
  • Recht
  • Rechtsinterpretatie
  • Rechtstheorie
  • Rechtsvinding
  • Semiotik
  • USA
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1. Reality -- 1. Making the Appalachian World: The Judicial Conception of the Land -- 2. The Shopping Mall: Signs of Power -- 3. Richard Posner's Sex and Reason: Meaning and the Ghost in the Machine -- pt. 2. Cosmology -- 4. Modern Witchcraft: The Semiotic Power of Community Cosmology -- 5. The Ineffable: Metaphor and the Prison-house of Language -- 6. Chaos: What Judges and Juries Do -- pt. 3. Process -- 7. What is a Hay Baler? The Semiotic Answer from Contract Law -- 8. The Ritual of the Judicial Opinion -- 9. Saying the Law: The Power of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Power -- pt. 4. Pragmatism -- 10. The Paradox of Principles and the Critique of Pragmatism.
ISBN
  • 0820431095
  • 9780820431093
LCCN
99055584
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library