Oral Argument

Episode 112: Quasi-Narrative

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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.

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