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dc.contributor.authorKaveny, Cathleen
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-20T16:43:51Z
dc.date.available2024-09-20T16:43:51Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.citationCathleen Kaveny, All the Law and the Prophets: The Legal Imagination as Prophetic Imagination, 35 YALE J.L. & HUMAN. 336 (2024).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/18457
dc.description35:2en_US
dc.description.abstractLegal speech and prophetic speech are commonly configured as diametrically opposed to each other. A lawyer stands graceful and impeccably groomed, calmly proffering measured arguments. A prophet stands unkempt and askew, spewing wild denunciations. Prophets hotly condemn the law and the legal system, while lawyers coldly dismiss prophetic accusations as unhinged and impractical. This view of the respective roles of law and prophetic discourse is entrenched in Anglo-American social criticism. The great nineteenth-century British critic Matthew Arnold distinguished between the rhetorical styles of Hellenism and Hebraism, the language of “sweetness and light” and the language of “fire and strength,” respectively.1 The former is the objective and precise language of rational analysis, the language of the courtroom; the latter is the ardent articulation of protest and resistance, the language of the soapbox.en_US
dc.publisherYale Journal of Law & the Humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectLaw; Humanitiesen_US
dc.titleAll the Law and the Prophets: The Legal Imagination as Prophetic Imaginationen_US
rioxxterms.versionNAen_US
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_US
refterms.dateFOA2024-09-20T16:43:52Z
refterms.dateFirstOnline2024


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