The Use and Misuse of Metaphors

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Mohseni, Aryan
dc.contributor.author	Gummow, William
dc.date.accessioned	2025-08-01T05:03:02Z
dc.date.available	2025-08-01T05:03:02Z
dc.date.issued	2024	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34179
dc.description.abstract	The use of metaphors in legal reasoning has received renewed attention in recent decisions of the High Court of Australia and the UK Supreme Court. Reliance upon metaphor has a history of criticism as apt to confuse and mislead, but also has been described as a means of persuasion which assists in understanding legal doctrine. There are various species of legal metaphor. In this article, these are discussed under eight headings.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Lawbook Co. Ltd.	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Australian Law Journal	en
dc.rights	Copyright All Rights Reserved	en
dc.subject	Legal theory	en
dc.subject	Judicial method	en
dc.subject	Judicial reasoning	en
dc.subject	Legal reasoning	en
dc.subject	Language and law	en
dc.subject	Metaphors	en
dc.subject	Equity and trusts	en
dc.subject	Constitutional law	en
dc.subject	Metaphors in law	en
dc.title	The Use and Misuse of Metaphors	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.2139/ssrn.4976855
dc.type.pubtype	Publisher's version	en
usyd.faculty	SeS faculties schools::The University of Sydney Law School	en
usyd.citation.volume	98	en
usyd.citation.issue	10	en
usyd.citation.spage	738	en
workflow.metadata.only	Yes	en

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