Making the Case

The Art of the Judicial Opinion

Paul W. Kahn

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English

Yale University
08 January 2019

Law; Legal skills & practice

Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn’s classic The Bramble Bush, Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure of the judicial opinion. Learning to read the opinion, the student learns the nature of legal argument. Thus Kahn’s exposition of the opinion simultaneously offers a theory of legal meaning that will be of great interest to scholars of law, humanities, and the social sciences. At the center of Kahn’s approach are ideas of narrative, persuasion, and self-government. His sweeping account of interpretation in law offers innovative views of the nature of authorship, the development and decline of doctrine, and the construction of facts.

By: Paul W. Kahn
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9780300240160
ISBN 10: 0300240163
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 08 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and director of Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. His previous publications include The Reign of Law, Legitimacy and History, and Law and Love.

Reviews for Making the Case: The Art of the Judicial Opinion

Every law student will want this book. Paul Kahn takes us beyond the typical holdings and precedents in judicial opinions to the all-important questions of how legal language convinces us of the truth it wants us to hear. -Robert Ferguson, Columbia Law School Paying close attention to the legal opinion-how it is structured, the texture of its argument-leads us to the heart of what law is and does. Paul Kahn's book makes a wholly persuasive case for why we need to read the law. -Peter Brooks, Princeton University Paul Kahn is one of the greatest legal humanists the academy has ever produced. His lucid and profound book shows us that the legal case is a rhetorical genre no less deserving of systematic study than the novel, play, or sonnet. I knew long before I finished the book that I would never read--or teach--the same way again. --Kenji Yoshino, NYU Every law student needs this book, but so does anyone else who seeks to understand-beyond the familiar soundbites-how judges think and how law is made. -Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School