Legal interpretation takes place in a field of pain and death… Legal interpretative acts signal
and occasion the imposition of violence upon others: A judge articulates her understanding …

This chapter is the origin story of this book [forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishing-How
to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching] and an introduction to centering …

As a clinical teacher and a classroom teacher in US law schools, we applaud the
emergence of trauma-informed law teaching, and we believe it belongs not just in clinics, but …

3 Introduction often prescriptive, but this book reveals that trauma-centeredness5 requires
us to creatively expand possible options rather than make narrow prescriptions. All chapters …

Legal interpretation 1 takes place in a field of pain and death. This is true in several senses.
Legal interpretive acts signal and occasion the imposition of violence upon others: A judge …

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MURRAY* I. INTRODUCTION Legal scholars are enamored with characterizing violence as an …

HOW DO YOU NEGOTIATE TRAUMA AND EMOTIONS IN YOUR CLASSROOM? Posing
this open-ended question to law professors not only begets more questions, but also often …

Legal interpretation takes place in a field of pain and death. This is true in several senses.
Legal interpretive acts signal and occasion the imposition of violence upon others: A judge …

“L egal Cover interpretation wrote takes place in a field of pain and death,” Robert in his
seminal 1986 essay “Violence and the Word.” 1 His claim that law is composed of rules …

We met on the corner of 20th Street and G Street in the Northwest quadrant of Washington,
DC 2 One could feel a palpable sense of righteous indignation in the air as anxious law …