Storytelling for lawyers / / Philip N. Meyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464706003321
• Autore: Meyer Philip N
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-19-991061-8; 0-19-987541-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 347.7375
• Soggetti: Trial practice - United States; Persuasion (Psychology); Storytelling; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; STORYTELLING FOR LAWYERS; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgment; 1. Introduction; I. Lawyers Are Storytellers; II. Legal Arguments Are Stories in Disguise; III. The Parts of a Story; IV. Movies and Closing Arguments; 2. Plotting I: The Basics; I. What Is Plot?; II. Plot Structure in Two Movies; 3. Plotting II: Plot Structure in a Closing Argument to a Jury in a Complex Torts Case; I. The "Backstory"; II. Annotated Excerpts from Gerry Spence's Closing Argument on Behalf of Karen Silkwood; III. Concluding Observations; 4. Character Lessons: Character, Character Development, and CharacterizationI. Introduction: Why Emphasize Movie Characters in Legal Storytelling?; II. What Is Character, and Why Is It Important to Legal Storytellers?; III. Flat and Round Characters and Static and Changing Characters- High Noon Revisited; IV. Techniques of Character Development and Characterization: Excerpts from Tobias Wolff 's This Boy's Life; 5. Characters, Character Development, and Characterization in a Closing Argument to a Jury in a Complex Criminal Case; I. The "Backstory"; II. Annotated Excerpts from Jeremiah Donovan's Closing Argument on Behalf of Louis FaillaIII. Concluding Observations; 6. Style Matters: How ; to Use Voice, Point of View, Details and Images, Rhythms of Language, Scene and Summary, and Quotations and Transcripts in Effective Legal Storytelling; I. Backstory: Grading Law School Examinations; II. Preliminary Note: "Voice" and "Style"; III. Voice and Rhythm: "Staying on the Surface"; IV. The Use of Scene and Summary: "Showing and Telling"; V. Telling in Different Voices; VI. Perspective or Point of View; VII. Several Functions of Perspective: How Does Perspective (Point of View)Work, and What Work Does It Do?VIII. Concluding Observations; 7. A Sense of Place: Settings, Descriptions, and Environments; I. Introduction; II. Dangerous Territory: Contrasting Settings Evoking Danger and Instability in Joan Didion's "The White Album" and the Judicial Opinion in a Rape Case; III. More Dangerous Places Where Bad Things Happen: Use of Physical Descriptions and Factual Details to Create Complex Environments in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants and the Petitioners' Briefs in Two Coerced Confession Cases; IV. Settings and Environment as Villains and Villainy in the Mitigation Stories of Kathryn Harrison's While They Slept and the Petitioner's Brief in Eddings v. OklahomaV. Concluding Observations; 8. Narrative Time: A Brief Exploration; I. Introduction; II. The Ordering of Discourse Time; III. Concluding Observations; 9. Final Observations: Beginnings and Endings; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories. Whether they are arguing a murder case or a complex financial securities case, they can capably explain a chain of events to judges and juries so that they understand them. The best lawyers are also able to construct narratives that have an emotional impact on their intended audiences. But what is a narrative, and how can lawyers go about constructing one? How does one transform a cold presentation of facts into a seamless story that clearly and compellingly takes readers not only from point A to point B, but to points C, D, E, F, and G as well? In

Tabula longitudinis ac latitudinis [[electronic resource] ] : urbium & oppidorum per totum terrarum orbem / / ex Philippi Ferrarii ; Epitome geographica excerpta

• Record Nr.: UNISA996396747003316
• Autore: Ferrarius Philippus <d. 1626.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Londini, : Ex officina Rogeri Danielis, CIC IC C LVII [1657]
• Descrizione fisica: [24] p
• Altri autori (Persone): FerrariusPhilippus <d. 1626.>
• Soggetti: Geographical positions; Latitude
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Latino
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reproduction of original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

Islam, Christianity, and tradition : a comparative exploration / / Ian Richard Netton [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784465603321
• Autore: Netton Ian Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2006
• ISBN: 0-7486-5311-2; 9786610762521; 1-280-76252-7; 0-7486-3025-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 297.124
• Soggetti: Authority - Religious aspects - Christianity; Authority - Religious aspects - Islam
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-231) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- ; 1. Preparation for a threefold sieve -- ; 1.1. Whose agenda for the twenty-first century? -- ; 1.2. The twentieth century revisited : surveys and approaches -- ; 1.2.1. The way of the historian of religion -- ; 1.2.2. The way of the anthropologist -- ; 1.2.3. The way of the traveller -- ; 1.3. Methodologies for a new millennium -- ; 1.3.1. Phenomenology, Husserl and Heidegger : object -- ; 1.3.2. Semiotics and Eco : sign -- ; 1.3.3 Theology and Eliade : the sacred -- ; 1.3.3.1 The sacred and the profane -- ; 1.3.3.2. Mircea Eliade, the sacred and Islam -- ; 1.4. Case studies -- ; 1.4.1. Case study ground zero : object -- ; 1.4.2. Case study ground zero : sign -- ; 1.4.3. Case study ground zero : the sacred -- ; 1.5. Samuel Huntington revisited -- ; 1.6. Conclusion.; ; 2. Orthodoxy and heterodoxy : worn vocabulary explored -- 2.1. Rejecting the terms : Baldick contra Popovic and Veinstein -- ; 2.2. Christianity : sources of authority and right doctrines -- ; 2.2.1. The authority of the ekklēsía (1). Arius and Arianism -- ; 2.2.2. The authority of the ekklēsía (2). Augustine, Manichaeism and the flesh rejected -- ; 2.3. Readings : Christianity -- ; 2.3.1. Readings : Christianity -- ; 2.3.1. Reading the phenomena of Christianity -- ; ; 2.3.2. Reading the signs of Christianity -- ; 2.3.3. Reading the sacred in Christianity -- ; 2.4. Islam : sources of authority and right doctrines -- ; 2.4.1. The authority of the text (1) : Ibn Ḥanbal and the text transcendent -- ; 2.4.2. The authority of the text (2) : Al-Ghazālī and the Ismāʻīlī Imām -- ; 2.5. Readings : Islam -- ; 2.5.1. Reading the phenomena of Islam -- ; 2.5.2. Reading the signs of Islam -- ; 2.5.3. Reading the sacred in Islam -- ; 2.6. Conclusion.; ; 3. The flight to tradition : a paradigm of return and denial -- ; 3.1. Christian tradition : definitions and distinctions -- ; 3.2. Shadow and spirit : the Second Vatican Council -- ; 3.2.1. Pre-conciliar : Pascendi and Divino Afflante Spiritu -- ; 3.2.2. Intra-conciliar : Dei Verbum and John XXIII -- ; 3.2.3. Post-conciliar : the spirit and practice of Marcel Lefebvre -- ; 3.3. Sunna : definitions and distinctions -- ; 3.4. Neo-Ijtihād and return to the Salaf -- ; 3.5. Tradition, purification, Kénōsis and return -- Notes -- Bibliography of works cited -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Contemporary media sources -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a unique comparative exploration of the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity. In comparing the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity, key themes are explored such as the roles of authority, fundamentalism, the use of reason, and ijtihad (independent thinking).