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The Word and the Law Milner S. Ball

The Word and the Law By Milner S. Ball

The Word and the Law by Milner S. Ball


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Summary

Ball takes an experimental journey into the inner life of law and the careers of men and women who use it to help disadvantaged people and to strengthen the fabric of the communities in which they live. The book concentrates on seven contemporary lawyers, judges, and advocates who have devoted their lives to an unconventional vision of the law.

The Word and the Law Summary

The Word and the Law by Milner S. Ball

Milner Ball takes an experimental journey into the inner life of law and the careers of men and women who use it to help disadvantaged people and to strengthen the fabric of the communities in which they live. At the center of this book are portraits of seven contemporary legal practitioners--lawyers, judges, and advocates--who have devoted their lives to an unconventional vision of the law. In their work, in areas from New York City housing court to the Warm Springs reservation in Oregon, the law exemplifies fundamental human values, manifestations of what Ball calls the Word, the presence of God in life. To develop this concept of the Word, Ball explores its workings in familiar literary and biblical texts, primarily William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Toni Morrison's Beloved, the Book of Isaiah, and the Gospel of Mark.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Seven Practices in Law 2: Dilsey, Baby Suggs, and the Nonreligious Word 3: What of Ethics, Faith, Christian Religion? 4: Mark, Isaiah, and the Empty Place 5: Aesthetic Meaning and Political Freedom 6: Morbidity and Viability in Law Acknowledgments Notes Index

Additional information

GOR012402186
9780226036250
0226036251
The Word and the Law by Milner S. Ball
Used - Very Good
Hardback
The University of Chicago Press
19930601
224
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