Analysis of Legal Cases

Flora Di Donato is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law, at the Federico II University of Naples, where she teaches Clinical Legal Education (Formazione Clinico-Legale). Her research focuses on the analysis of the law in real life and the contribution of laypeople in constructing the meanings of the law. In 2010, she was awarded the Annual RCSL Adam Podgórecki (ISA) Prize "for her outstanding achievements as an emerging scholar in socio-legal research". She has been a lecturer, a research fellow and a visiting scholar in several different Italian, Swiss and USA universities.

• Foreword COLETTE DAIUTE AND ANN SHALLECKAcknowledgements Introduction: why adopt a narrative approach to law? PART ITheoretical and methodological frameworks 1 Culture, narrative and law 2 The narrative turn in the legal field 3 Fact construction: contexts, roles and methods PART IITrajectories of case analysis Section I – Fact construction 4 Rediscovering the role of the client 5 The lawyer as translator 6 The judge as a creative decision maker Section II – Narratives in cultural contexts 7 Laypeople in action I: natives’ stories 8 Laypeople in action II: foreigners’ stories Section III – Improving justice for vulnerable people 9 Collaborative lawyering with vulnerable clients: asylumseekers’ stories Conclusions: moving towards new directions ofnarrative theory and clinical legal research Index