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

This book explains the growth of secular law in a Middle East nation, revealing it to be the product of elite competition over control of the state, a competiti

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

Law is understood, interpreted, and practiced by metaphor. The presently dominant, conceptual metaphor for law is that "law is the bulwark of freedom." Milner S

It has long been recognized that court trials, both criminal and civil, in the common law system, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing