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Perhaps I am being too sensitive, or too rude: my experience is, anyway, that discussing problems of law or legal theory in terms of narrative coherence gets on lawyers’ nerves. They become impatient when someone tries to convince them of the quite received opinion that law should be and is presumed to be coherent. They become suspicious when they are asked to learn still another fashionable word for what - if anyone knows - they know about coherence in law, fed up as they feel after having swallowed hermeneutic, rhetoric, cybernetic, semiotic, etc. jargon. They even become slightly aggressive, at least in my country, when they hear coherence in law epitomized as ‘narrative’: for ‘nar’ in Dutch means ‘fool’ or ‘jester’; and should not law at least be taken seriously?
“Il faut éclairer l’histoire par les lois, et les lois par l’histoire.”
Montesquieu, Esprit des Lois, XXXI, ii.
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van Roermund, B.C. (1990). Narrative Coherence and the Guises of Legalism. In: Nerhot, P. (eds) Law, Interpretation and Reality. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7875-2_15
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