Nothing but the Truth : Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth / Steven Lubet

By:

Lubet Steven

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical AmericaPublication details: New York : NYU Press, c2001Description: xii, 219 p. : 23 cmISBN:

9780814751749

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DDC classification:

347.7375 LUB

Contents:

Acknowledgments; introduction Storytelling Lawyers; 1. Biff and Me: Stories That Are Truer Than True; 2. Edgardo Mortara: Forbidden Truths; 3. John Brown: Political Truth and Consequences; 4. Wyatt Earp: Truth and Context; 5. Liberty Valance: Truth or Justice; 6. Atticus Finch: Race, Class, Gender, and Truth; 7. Sheila McGough: The Impossibility of the Whole Truth; Index; About the Author

Summary: Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to befuddle witnesses and bamboozle juries. Why not simply allow the witnesses to speak their minds, without the distorting influence of lawyers' strata

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	347.7375 LUB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0062087
Book	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	347.7375 LUB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		0062088

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Includes index.

Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to befuddle witnesses and bamboozle juries. Why not simply allow the witnesses to speak their minds, without the distorting influence of lawyers' strata

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