%0 Journal Article
%T New Directions in Law and Narrative
%A Derek Miller
%A Robin Wharton
%J Law, Culture and the Humanities
%@ 1743-9752
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1743872116652865
%X 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
%K law and literature
%K narrative
%K narratology
%K postcolonial theory
%K precedent
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1743872116652865