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- W2247165518 abstract "In the most recent edition of Law and Literature (2009), Richard Posner praises Sybille Bedford as one of the few novelists who “have done brilliant nonfi ction writing about law” (4). Posner does not elaborate what he means by “brilliant” except to say briefl y elsewhere in his work that readers comparing American and French criminal procedure can do better studying Bedford’s “record of actual trials” than reading “novelistic descriptions.” (63) 1 These comments are made within the general context of Posner’s well-known reservations about law and literature studies which had already attracted vigorous rejoinders (see, for example, Weisberg 1989, West 1993), and it is not my intention here to revisit the arguments. In not elaborating his praise, however, Posner makes of Bedford an unargued case within his sceptic’s discourse about law and literature. Posner’s remarks about Bedford appear, on the one hand, to acknowledge that authorial talent can straddle fi ctional writing and legal writing, such as the trial report, with its truth and factual claims, and on the other, to insist that they are strictly separated generic categories. In disputing fi ction’s likely contribution to the law, one of Posner’s complaints may help to explain his positive appraisal of Bedford. He writes: “only rarely can we learn much about the day-to-day operations of a legal system from works of imaginative literature even when they depict trials or other legal processes.” (21) 2The opening of “The Worst We Can Do,” one of Bedford’s essays in the collection The Faces of Justice (1961), appears to meet Posner’s criterion of quotidian knowledge:Not the worst. Not about the great wrongs. Not about bad laws. Not about Adolph Beck or Chessman or judicial errors; not about hanging or fl ogging or the Labouchere Amendment. About the small things men do to each other every day if they have the power and the lack of imagination, or if their convictions happen to run that way. It goes unrecorded, it is hardly noticed, but it lives on in the memories of those concerned." @default.
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- W2247165518 title "Everyday law in the court writing of Sybille Bedford" @default.
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