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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2025
Print publication year:
2025
Online ISBN:
9781009524087
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Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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Book description

Rhetorical Traditions and Contemporary Law is a collection of twelve case studies that explore the often-overlooked intersections of law and rhetoric. Drawing from rhetorical traditions of the past and present, the multidisciplinary roster of contributors analyzes contemporary legal theory and practice, from judicial opinions to legal scholarship, using significant texts or concepts in a rhetorical tradition. Their essays demonstrate how legal texts function and to what end, while also considering how they might have worked differently. The volume sheds light on the usefulness of rhetoric in addressing some of today's most pressing legal and social challenges. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

  • Rhetorical Traditions and Contemporary Law
    pp i-ii
  • Rhetorical Traditions and Contemporary Law - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-viii
  • Contributors
    pp ix-x
  • Acknowledgments
    pp xi-xii
  • Part I - Introduction
    pp 1-14
  • 1 - Rhetoric and Law
    pp 3-14
  • A Mosaic
  • Part II - Key Rhetorical Concepts Animating Contemporary American Law
    pp 15-94
  • 2 - The Ethos of Originalism
    pp 17-41
  • 3 - The Role of Tradition in Classical and Contemporary Argument
    pp 42-69
  • 4 - Practical Reason in Peril
    pp 70-94
  • From Cicero to Texas Health Presbyterian
  • Part III - Façade of Neutrality
    pp 95-138
  • 5 - Deciphering Dobbs
    pp 97-118
  • Syllogism and Enthymeme in Contemporary Legal Discourse
  • Part IV - Permeable Boundaries
    pp 139-226
  • 7 - Searching for Legal Topoi in the Shadow Docket
    pp 141-157
  • 8 - Sensus Communis, Voter-Inflicted Harms, and Schuette v. BAMN
    pp 158-180
  • 9 - (Vernacular) Rhetorics for Women’s Rights
    pp 181-204
  • 10 - <Police Power> to Stop-and-Frisk
    pp 205-226
  • A Pattern for Persuasion
  • Part V - Law’s Power to Exclude Voices
    pp 227-292
  • 11 - Framing the War on Drugs
    pp 229-247
  • Judith Butler and Legal Rhetorical Analysis
  • 13 - Dissoi Logoi, Rhetorical Listening, and Legal Education
    pp 273-292
  • Part VI - Looking Outward and Forward
    pp 293-300
  • 14 - An Unconventional Call for Proposals
    pp 295-300
  • Index
    pp 301-310

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