Law�s Metaphors

Law's Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy 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. * Represents an innovative approach to interdisciplinary legal scholarship * Features new developments in theorizing law's relations with language, society, and culture * Includes contributions from European and North American scholars across several relevant disciplines * Reveals the prevalence and power of the use of metaphors in the legal profession and in the popular imagination