Beschreibung:
The book presents examples of how literary sources can provide a supplement to our understanding of science in law. Challenging the view that law and science are completely different, insofar as the former is associated with social or communal conventions, rhetorical strategies, and local institutions, the study discusses texts that suggest that science shares those very same features with law.
Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Law-and-Literature, Literature-and-Science, and a Hybrid Law-Literature-Science Field of Study; Chapter 3 Ramón y Cajal: Hard SF for Lawyers; Chapter 4 Ibsen's An Enemy of the People: The Public Understanding of Science in Law; Chapter 5 Idealized Images of Science in Film: The Expert Witness in Trial Movies; Chapter 6 "Faction": Truman Capote, Legal Ethics and In Cold Blood; Chapter 7 Historical Narratives: Mad Alchemists, Experts Attacking Experts, and the Crisis in Forensic Science; Chapter 8 Conclusion: A New Picture of Science in Law;