New Directions in Law and Narrative
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on June 05, 2016
Abstract
This commentary assesses the state of scholarship on law and narrative and argues for a more holistic approach to the topic. Narrative and law do not encounter each other accidentally but are ineluctably intertwined. Law is a dominant narrative form in the modern world; narrative suffuses not just testimony but all legal practice. We urge scholarship that recognizes law and narrative as part of the same socio-cultural project of making the world.