Contents -- Editorial Introduction. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns -- Imagining the Law. James Boyd White -- Antirrhesis: Polemical Structures of Common Law Thought. Peter Goodrich -- Becoming American: High Treason and Low Invective in the Republic of Laws. Robert A. Ferguson -- Speaking of Death: Narratives of Violence in Capital Trials. Austin Sarat -- Ordering Voice: Rhetoric and Democracy in Project Head Start. Lucie White -- Constitutional Discourse and Its Discontents: An Essay on the Rhetoric of Judicial Review. Lawrence Douglas -- The Alchemy of Style and Law. Barbara Johnson -- Reading the Law. Adam Thurschwell -- Contributors -- Index.