{"product_id":"our-word-is-our-bond-how-legal-speech-acts-paperback","title":"Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarianne Constable\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWords can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. \u003ci\u003eOur Word Is Our Bond\u003c\/i\u003e offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction and relations with modern law. Marianne Constable argues that, as language, modern law makes claims and hears claims of justice and injustice, which can admittedly go wrong. Constable proposes an alternative to understanding law as a system of rules, or as fundamentally a policy-making and problem-solving tool. Constable introduces and develops insights from Austin, Cavell, Reinach, Nietzsche, Derrida and Heidegger to show how claims of law are performative and passionate utterances or social acts that appeal implicitly to justice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Word Is Our Bond\u003c\/i\u003e explains that neither law nor justice are what lawyers and judges say, nor what officials and scholars claim they are. However inadequate our law and language may be to the world, Constable argues that we know our world and name our ways of living and being in it through law and language. Justice today, however impossible to define and difficult to determine, depends on relations we have with one another through language and on the ways in which legal speech--the claims and responses that we make to one another in the name of the law--acts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarianne Constable is Professor and Chair of the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eJust Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law\u003c\/i\u003e(2005) and \u003ci\u003eThe Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changes in Conceptions of Citizenship, Law and Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), winner of the Law and Society Association's J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639468572931,"sku":"9780804774949","price":44.21,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/ZmNoeHR2d09xeDU4V0wvQlVPNDlJUT09.webp?v=1768636368","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-at\/products\/our-word-is-our-bond-how-legal-speech-acts-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}