Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
ISBN:
9781400823376
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1400823374
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1400811155
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9781400811151
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9780691007274
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0691007276
Inhalt:
"Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem determined as much by which lawyer can best connect with the hearts and minds of the jurors as by what the evidence might suggest. In this celebration of the American trial as a great cultural achievement, Robert Burns, a trial lawyer and a trained philosopher, explores how these legal proceedings bring about justice. The trial, he reminds us, is not confined to the impartial application of legal rules to factual findings. Burns depicts the trial as an institution employing its own language and styles of performance that elevate the understanding of decision-makers, bringing them in contact with moral sources beyond the limits of law."--Jacket
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The Received View of the Trial -- The Trial's Linguistic Practices -- The Trial's Constitutive Rules -- An Interpretation from One Trial -- The Trial's Most Basic Features and Some Observed Consequences -- Thinking What We Do -- The Two Sides of the Trial Event -- The Truth of Verdicts.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Burns, Robert P., 1947-; Theory of the trial.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Burns, Robert P., 1947- Theory of the trial Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©1999
Sprache:
Englisch
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