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Argumentace krásnou literaturou

Title in English Fiction in Legal Argumentation
Authors

SMEJKALOVÁ Terezie

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Právo v umění a umění v právu : sborník odborných příspěvků z mezinárodní konference Olomoucké debaty mladých právníků 2011
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Law

Citation
Field Law sciences
Keywords fiction; argumentation; law and literature; narrative; narrative experience; Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
Description This paper focuses on the issue of argumentation by the means of Fiction and other belletristic works of art in the context of decisions of The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. Its reasoning stems from the statutory requirement of “persuasiveness” of judicial reasoning. Further, it addresses the importance of the reflection of narrative experience and metaphor in understanding. In the subsequent part, this paper presents and discusses the results of a brief quantitative survey of practical usage of argumentation and references to Fiction in the decisions of The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic.
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