Beloved are the Storytellers

Stockmeyer, Norman

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Beloved are the Storytellers

Norman Otto Stockmeyer

Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2001

Abstract:
At his death in 1999, England's Lord Denning was eulogized as "the best-loved judge in the whole of our history." Similarly, Justice Benjamin Cardozo has been called "America's best-loved judge." This brief Commentary examines an attribute shared by these two revered judges: a distinctive, storytelling style of opinion writing.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 5

Keywords: Judicial opinions, writing style, storytelling

JEL Classification: K-49

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Date posted: August 7, 2008

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Stockmeyer, Norman Otto, Beloved are the Storytellers. Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2001. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1206045

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