| Communication in Legal Advocacy Contributor(s): Rieke, Richard D. (Author), Stutman, Randall K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0872496813 ISBN-13: 9780872496811 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1992 Annotation: Communication in Legal Advocacy integrates work in legal theory, communication theory, social science research, and strategic planning to provide a comprehensive analysis of the communication process in trials. Responding to the energizing interest in alternative discipline resolution, calling attention to the ways in which negotiation, mediation, and arbitration interrelate with trials. This study blends traditional argumentative analyses such as the rational-world notions of adversary proceedings, presumption, burden of proof and essential issues with contemporary ideas of narrative rationality. The volume offers the reader a practical and strategic guide to effective trial advocacy, and it provides theoretical insights into trials as socially sanctioned mechanisms of dispute resolution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Civil Procedure - Political Science | Political Process - Political Advocacy - Law | Communications |
| Dewey: 347.307 |
| LCCN: 89016759 |
| Series: Studies in Communication Processes |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.04" W x 8.83" (0.79 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first book in a new series--Studies in Communication Processes--this is a research-based, practical analysis of communication processes in trials. Besides the traditional perception of trials as scientific fact-finding proceedings, the authors look at trials as social-scientific phenomena. Responding to the emerging interest in alternative dispute resolution, the book examines the ways in which negotiation, mediation, and arbitration interrelate with trials. The authors combine traditional argumentative analyses (such as presumption and burden-of-proof) with contemporary ideas about narrative rationality. Social science research is used to expand the understanding of such traditional concepts as procedural fairness, the credibility of witnesses as sources of knowledge, and procedures such as jury selection, opening and closing statements, witness examination, and jury deliberation. Readers looking for a practical and strategic guide to effective trial advocacy, theoretical insights into trials as socially sanctioned mechanisms for dispute resolution, and a study of applied argumentation within the specialized field of law will find this book extremely beneficial. |