Author: Daniel Kornstein
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803278219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Two-thirds of Shakespeare?s plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare?s plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions of the present day. The Elizabethan age was as litigious as our own, and Shakespeare was very familiar with the language and procedures of the courts. Kill All the Lawyers? examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. ø This is a ground-breaking study in the field of literature and the law, ambitious and suggestive of the value of both our literary and our legal inheritance.
Kill All the Lawyers?
Author: Daniel Kornstein
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803278219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Two-thirds of Shakespeare?s plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare?s plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions of the present day. The Elizabethan age was as litigious as our own, and Shakespeare was very familiar with the language and procedures of the courts. Kill All the Lawyers? examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. ø This is a ground-breaking study in the field of literature and the law, ambitious and suggestive of the value of both our literary and our legal inheritance.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803278219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Two-thirds of Shakespeare?s plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare?s plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions of the present day. The Elizabethan age was as litigious as our own, and Shakespeare was very familiar with the language and procedures of the courts. Kill All the Lawyers? examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. ø This is a ground-breaking study in the field of literature and the law, ambitious and suggestive of the value of both our literary and our legal inheritance.
Henry VI. Part III.
Let's Kill All The Lawyers
Author: Tim Howard
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 183952331X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A doctor and a lawyer. Both stressed by their work, and by personal demons. Thrown together bychance, but each needing the skills and guidance of the other. Each is challenged and threatened by the law, and the impersonal way it arbitrates on fault, responsibility, and guilt. This story explores what it is like to be a good doctor whose professional competence is challenged, and how his lawyer does her best for him. It explores the way life and death decisions are made in hospitals, and how these have a consequence not only for patients, but also for those who have to make those decisions. And how, in making them, the main players can be torn apart or drawn together...
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 183952331X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A doctor and a lawyer. Both stressed by their work, and by personal demons. Thrown together bychance, but each needing the skills and guidance of the other. Each is challenged and threatened by the law, and the impersonal way it arbitrates on fault, responsibility, and guilt. This story explores what it is like to be a good doctor whose professional competence is challenged, and how his lawyer does her best for him. It explores the way life and death decisions are made in hospitals, and how these have a consequence not only for patients, but also for those who have to make those decisions. And how, in making them, the main players can be torn apart or drawn together...
Kill All the Lawyers
Author: Paul J. Levine
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781597226080
Category : Attorney and client
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The courtroom will never be the same when the legal world's oddest couple team up in their third mystery.
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781597226080
Category : Attorney and client
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The courtroom will never be the same when the legal world's oddest couple team up in their third mystery.
First Kill All the Lawyers
Author: Sarah Shankman
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611876281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Home again in Atlanta after years on the Left Coast, crime reporter Samantha Adams finds that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Beau, the boy who broke her heart eons earlier, is more handsome than ever and is now the Medical Examiner. In the South, good manners (and keen protective instincts) prevent folks from saying what they mean, particularly about extramarital “slippin’ and slidin’.” And backwoods sheriffs still rule their fiefdoms with a strong hand and steady aim. Sam finds herself deep in the kudzu once more when a lawyer, a family acquaintance, goes missing, then turns up dead. When the sheriff rules it an accident, Sam and Beau team up to deliver their own unique brand of justice.
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611876281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Home again in Atlanta after years on the Left Coast, crime reporter Samantha Adams finds that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Beau, the boy who broke her heart eons earlier, is more handsome than ever and is now the Medical Examiner. In the South, good manners (and keen protective instincts) prevent folks from saying what they mean, particularly about extramarital “slippin’ and slidin’.” And backwoods sheriffs still rule their fiefdoms with a strong hand and steady aim. Sam finds herself deep in the kudzu once more when a lawyer, a family acquaintance, goes missing, then turns up dead. When the sheriff rules it an accident, Sam and Beau team up to deliver their own unique brand of justice.
Schools for Misrule
Author: Walter K. Olson
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594032335
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Some imagine that the law schools possess a finer, purer moral sensitivity than the everyday America outside their walls. ("Welcome to the Republic of Conscience!" Yale Law dean Harold Koh announced to incoming students.) But as this book shows the pipe dream of training philosopher-monarchs not only leads to one policy disaster after another, but distracts law schools from the most useful function they can serve: training competent, ethical and suitably humble lawyers for tomorrow. --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594032335
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Some imagine that the law schools possess a finer, purer moral sensitivity than the everyday America outside their walls. ("Welcome to the Republic of Conscience!" Yale Law dean Harold Koh announced to incoming students.) But as this book shows the pipe dream of training philosopher-monarchs not only leads to one policy disaster after another, but distracts law schools from the most useful function they can serve: training competent, ethical and suitably humble lawyers for tomorrow. --Book Jacket.
The Deep Blue Alibi
Author: Paul J. Levine
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0440242746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The mismatched legal team of Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord becomes embroiled in an explosive new case involving Florida high society, dark family secrets, a shipwrecked yacht, and murder as they race against time to expose a killer and clear the name of Victoria's uncle. By the author of Solomon vs. Lord. Original.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0440242746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The mismatched legal team of Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord becomes embroiled in an explosive new case involving Florida high society, dark family secrets, a shipwrecked yacht, and murder as they race against time to expose a killer and clear the name of Victoria's uncle. By the author of Solomon vs. Lord. Original.
Shakespeare and the Law
Author: Bradin Cormack
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637856X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
"William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life; trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a deep and sometimes vexed engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. Shakespeare and the Law opens with three essays that provide useful frameworks for approaching the topic, offering perspectives on law and literature that emphasize both the continuities and the contrasts between the two fields. In its second section, the book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common-law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othello. Building and expanding on this question, the third part inquires into Shakespeare's general attitudes toward legal systems. A judge and former solicitor general rule on Shylock's demand for enforcement of his odd contract; and two essays by literary scholars take contrasting views on whether Shakespeare could imagine a functioning legal system. The fourth section looks at how law enters into conversation with issues of politics and community, both in the plays and in our own world. The volume concludes with a freewheeling colloquy among Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Richard A. Posner, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier that covers everything from the ghost in Hamlet to the nature of judicial discretion"--Jacket.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637856X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
"William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life; trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a deep and sometimes vexed engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. Shakespeare and the Law opens with three essays that provide useful frameworks for approaching the topic, offering perspectives on law and literature that emphasize both the continuities and the contrasts between the two fields. In its second section, the book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common-law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othello. Building and expanding on this question, the third part inquires into Shakespeare's general attitudes toward legal systems. A judge and former solicitor general rule on Shylock's demand for enforcement of his odd contract; and two essays by literary scholars take contrasting views on whether Shakespeare could imagine a functioning legal system. The fourth section looks at how law enters into conversation with issues of politics and community, both in the plays and in our own world. The volume concludes with a freewheeling colloquy among Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Richard A. Posner, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier that covers everything from the ghost in Hamlet to the nature of judicial discretion"--Jacket.
Pillars of Justice
Author: Owen Fiss
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The constitutional theorist Owen Fiss explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through a moving account of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. He tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and principles they served.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The constitutional theorist Owen Fiss explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through a moving account of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. He tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and principles they served.
Shakespeare's Insults for Doctors
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN: 9780517704462
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Patients looking to vent their spleen on their doctors, and doctors eager to do the inverse, in verse, will find all the bilious verbal abuse they need in this compendium of insults from Shakespeare, who knew, apparently, that sometimes invective is the best medicine. 20 line illustrations.
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN: 9780517704462
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Patients looking to vent their spleen on their doctors, and doctors eager to do the inverse, in verse, will find all the bilious verbal abuse they need in this compendium of insults from Shakespeare, who knew, apparently, that sometimes invective is the best medicine. 20 line illustrations.