Law’s Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy

<p><i>Law’s Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy</i> presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination.</p> <br /> <ul> <li>Represents an innovative approach to interdisciplinary legal scholarship</li> <li>Features new developments in theorizing law’s relations with language, society, and culture</li> <li>Includes contributions from European and North American scholars across several relevant disciplines</li> <li>Reveals the prevalence and power of the use of metaphors in the legal profession and in the popular imagination</li> </ul>