Narrative and Metaphor in the Law

Narrative and Metaphor in the Law
Author: Michael Hanne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2018-02-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108422799

Scholars from many disciplines discuss the crucial roles played by narrative and metaphor in the theory and practice of law.

Comparative Law

Comparative Law
Author: Sean Patrick Donlan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0429751419

This book discusses a number of important themes in comparative law: legal metaphors and methodology, the movements of legal ideas and institutions and the mixity they produce, and marriage, an area of law in which culture – or clashes of legal and public cultures – may be particularly evident. In a mix of methodological and empirical investigations divided by these themes, the work offers expanded analyses and a unique cross-section of materials that is on the cutting edge of comparative law scholarship. It presents an innovative approach to legal pluralism, the study of mixed jurisdictions, and language and the law, with the use of metaphors not as an illustration but as a core element of comparative methodology.

Kant's Tribunal of Reason

Kant's Tribunal of Reason
Author: Sofie Møller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108498493

This is the first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors, whose philosophical importance has so far been overlooked. It will appeal to academic researchers and advanced students of Kant, early modern philosophy, legal philosophy, and intellectual history.

The Language of Law and Food

The Language of Law and Food
Author: Salvatore Mancuso
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-09
Genre: Culture and law
ISBN: 9780367747961

Introduction / Salvatore Mancuso -- Analogies and figures of speech in food and law : the fun side of law! / Christa Rautenbach -- Le droit louisianais, un gombo qui s'offre en partage / Olivier Moréteau -- Les ingrédients et les recettes de la cuisine juridique québécoise : entre mixité et pluralité / Matthieu Juneau -- Involvement of Polish legal elites in preparing a new draft of Civil Code, seen as an intellectual feast : menu a la carte or fast food? / Michał Gałędek and Anna Klimaszewska -- Globalization, Americanization, and the epidemic of human obesity : finding the legal reason for a symptom of cultural decline / Joseph P. Garske -- The new prisoner's dilemma : the right to refuse feeding or force-feeding as a duty? / Fabio Ratto Trabucco -- Food as punishment, food as dignity : the legal treatment of food in prison / Maria Chiara Locchi -- 'Elusive and fugitive' : relationships between water, law, culture and survival / Francine Rochford -- Does the EU legislation on the protection of farm animals protect their welfare?/ Moa Näsström -- Intellectual property law : Europe adopts a European patent with unitary effect and unified patent court / Alice Pezard -- La procédure participative avec avocat, un nouveau mode de règlement amiable des litiges au service du consommateur?/ Sylvie Bissaloué -- Product liability from a comparative perspective : what kinds of protection?/ Domitilla Vanni di San Vincenzo.

The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology

The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology
Author: Roger Brownsword
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1342
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191502235

The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking. These technological developments, which include advances in networked information and communications, biotechnology, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, and environmental engineering technology, have raised a number of vital and complex questions. Although these technologies have the potential to generate positive transformation and help address 'grand societal challenges', the novelty associated with technological innovation has also been accompanied by anxieties about their risks and destabilizing effects. Is there a potential harm to human health or the environment? What are the ethical implications? Do this innovations erode of antagonize values such as human dignity, privacy, democracy, or other norms underpinning existing bodies of law and regulation? These technological developments have therefore spawned a nascent but growing body of 'law and technology' scholarship, broadly concerned with exploring the legal, social and ethical dimensions of technological innovation. This handbook collates the many and varied strands of this scholarship, focusing broadly across a range of new and emerging technology and a vast array of social and policy sectors, through which leading scholars in the field interrogate the interfaces between law, emerging technology, and regulation. Structured in five parts, the handbook (I) establishes the collection of essays within existing scholarship concerned with law and technology as well as regulatory governance; (II) explores the relationship between technology development by focusing on core concepts and values which technological developments implicate; (III) studies the challenges for law in responding to the emergence of new technologies, examining how legal norms, doctrine and institutions have been shaped, challenged and destabilized by technology, and even how technologies have been shaped by legal regimes; (IV) provides a critical exploration of the implications of technological innovation, examining the ways in which technological innovation has generated challenges for regulators in the governance of technological development, and the implications of employing new technologies as an instrument of regulatory governance; (V) explores various interfaces between law, regulatory governance, and new technologies across a range of key social domains.

Malignant Metaphor

Malignant Metaphor
Author: Alanna Mitchell
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1770907971

“Clear medical explanations . . . will bring comfort to those readers and their loved ones facing a cancer diagnosis” (Publishers Weekly). A Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award for Science Writing Alanna Mitchell explores the facts and myths about cancer in this powerful book, as she recounts her family’s experiences with the disease. When her beloved brother-in-law John is diagnosed with malignant melanoma, Alanna throws herself into the latest clinical research, providing us with a clear description of what scientists know of cancer and its treatments. When John enters the world of alternative treatments, Alanna does, too, looking for the science in untested waters. She comes face to face with the misconceptions we share about cancer, which are rooted in blame and anxiety, and opens the door to new ways of looking at our most-feared illness. Beautifully written, Malignant Metaphor is a compassionate and persuasive book that has the power to change the conversation about cancer. “Mitchell’s research is rooted in science, while her writing remains grippingly personal.” ―Quill & Quire

Law and Food

Law and Food
Author: Salvatore Mancuso
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000377148

This book presents a range of insights on the relationship between food and law. Over time, religions have multiplied food prohibitions and prescriptions, customs have redistributed land, shared its occupancy in creative ways, or favoured communal property so that everyone could have access to food. In turn, laws have multiplied to facilitate food trade, security, safety, traceability, and also to promote and protect food and wine production, using trademarks and geographical denominations. This volume brings a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to examine some of the most heavily debated issues in the interaction between food, in all forms, and the law. Topics covered include food security, food safety, food quality, intellectual property, and consumer protection. As well as highlighting current issues, the work also points to new challenges in this field. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and policy-makers working in the area of Food Law and Comparative Law.

The Logic of Metaphor

The Logic of Metaphor
Author: Eric Steinhart
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2001-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780792370048

Some sentences in natural languages like English have multiple meanings. Steinhart (William Paterson U. of New Jersey) divides the meanings into literal and metaphorical, denies that they are the same, and denies that the metaphorical function is necessarily false or necessarily true. He argues that most metaphors are based on analogies, which he defines as the relative structural indiscernibility of parts of worlds, and that a metaphor is true for a particular world if and only if certain parts of that world are relatively structurally indiscernible, that is, are analogous. c. Book News Inc.

Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability

Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability
Author: Brendon Larson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0300151543

Scientists turn to metaphors to formulate and explain scientific concepts, but an ill-considered metaphor can lead to social misunderstandings and counterproductive policies, Brendon Larson observes in this stimulating book. He explores how metaphors can entangle scientific facts with social values and warns that, particularly in the environmental realm, incautious metaphors can reinforce prevailing values that are inconsistent with desirable sustainability outcomes. "Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability" draws on four case studies--two from nineteenth-century evolutionary science, and two from contemporary biodiversity science--to reveal how metaphors may shape the possibility of sustainability. Arguing that scientists must assume greater responsibility for their metaphors, and that the rest of us must become more critically aware of them, the author urges more critical reflection on the social dimensions and implications of metaphors while offering practical suggestions for choosing among alternative scientific metaphors.