Practice Extended: Beyond Law and Literature (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Letters in Law
Part I. Literary Components in the Legal Imagination
1. The U.S. Constitution as Literature
2. The Place of Mercy in Legal Discourse
3. Immigration Law: An Answer to Intractability
Part II. The Nature of Judgment
4. Holmes and the Judicial Figure
5. The Opinion as Literary Genre
6. Ulysses in Government Hands
Part III. The Public Uses of Eloquence
7. Lawyer Lincoln: The Making of Eloquence
8. Memorialization and the Spirit of Law
9. Precision in Persuasion
Part IV. When Law Fails
10. The Somers Mutiny and the American Ship of State
11. Invading Panama: Circumstance and the Rule of Law
Coda: How to Read a Courtroom Novel
Notes
Cases Cited
Index