Is legal writing narrative? How about judgments, appeals, testimony? We talk with Simon Stern about narrative and its techniques and effects, suspense, dicta, authorial purposes, a crazy idea for a novel, mathematical proofs, and more.
This show’s links:
- Simon Stern’s faculty profile and writing
- Simon Stern, Narrative in the Legal Text: Judicial Opinions and Their Narratives
- William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book II: Of the Rights of Thing (Simon Stern, ed.); Simon’s introduction to the volume
- William Brewer and Edward Lichtenstein, Event Schemas, Story Schemas, and Story Grammars
- About the Paradox of Suspense
- Jonathan D. Leavitt et al., Story Spoilers Don’t Spoil Stories; Jonathan D. Leavitt et al., The Fluency of Spoilers: Why Giving Away Endings Improves Stories
- Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative (Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur, eds.) (Introduction to the book)
- Mitchel Lasser, The European Pasteurization of French Law
- Owen Barfield, This Ever Diverse Pair
- Wikipedia on epistolary novels
- Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members
- Oral Argument 48: Legal Truth (guest Lisa Kern Griffin)
Special Guest: Simon Stern.