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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2025

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Index

1919 Revolution. See Egypt
1952 Revolution. See Egypt
1956 Constitution. See Egypt
ABA. See American Bar Association
ABA Commission on Women. See American Bar Association
ABA Section of Litigation. See American Bar Association
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿĀʿishah, 195
abortion. See reproductive rights
ACHR. See Arab Charter on Human Rights
ACWR. See Arab Charter on Women’s Rights
ADAA. See Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
Adams, John Quincy, 76
Adeodato, João Maurício, 101
adversarial system, 58, 65, 290
Aeschines
Against Ctesiphon, 58–60
affirmative action, 174, 176
African Diasporic rhetorical tradition, 4, 296
Against Aristocrates. See Demosthenes
Against Athenogenes. See Epicrates
Against Ctesiphon. See Aeschines
Against Leocrates. See Lycurgus
Against Timocrates. See Demosthenes
Ahmed, Leila, 194–195
Akhbār al-Youm (newspaper), 200
al-Ahrām (newspaper), 201
Alexander, Michelle, 236, 239, 243
Alito, Samuel, 97, 103–116, 153, 165
al-Jarīdah (newspaper), 197
All Writs Act of 1789, 151–152
ALM Media, 250, 252–253, 269
al-Majlis al-Waṭanī al-Ittiḥādī. See Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates
al-Miṣrīyyah (newspaper), 199
al-Nahḍah. See Nahḍah
al-Qur’ān. See Qur’ān
al-Sadāt, Jihān, 200
ambiguity, 33, 74, 80, 82, 84, 86, 116
strategic, 116
American Bar Association, 143, 248–272
ABA Commission on Women, 253
ABA Section of Litigation, 253
Achieving Long-Term Careers for Women in Law initiative, 250, 252–253
amicus/-i curiae, brief, etc., 64, 107, 145, 149–150, 154
Amīn, Qāsim, 195
Anglican Church, 249–250, 263, 270
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, 229, 232
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, 234
apagoge, 50
Arab Charter on Human Rights, 182
Arab Charter on Women’s Rights, 181–182
Arab League, 181
Arab Parliament. See Arab League
Arab Renaissance or Awakening. See Nahḍah
Arab(ic)-Muslim world, 181–202
Arabic-Islamic rhetoric, 181–202
arete, 18–19
argumentation schemes, 100
Aristotelian revival, 17th century, 124
Aristotle, 3, 6, 18–19, 24, 73, 102, 161, 295
Prior Analytics, 97
Rhetoric, 3, 43, 73, 97–100, 121–122, 145
On the Soul, 124
Ark Group, 253
ars dictaminis, 75
ars notaria, 75
Asian Diasporic rhetorical tradition, 4, 296
assimilated cultural influences, 191, 193
assisted suicide, 52, 110
Astell, Mary
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, 248–272
Letters Concerning the Love of God, 254
Some Reflections Upon Marriage, 250
‘Aṭīyah, Rāwīyah, 200
Athens
ancestral constitution, 42
democracy, 73
forensic rhetoric, 42–66
judges, 43
legal procedure, 45, 50
Atlantic Monthly, 213
Attic orators, 42–66
Augustine of Hippo, 4
autonomy theory, 283
Bāḥithat al-Bādīyah (pen name). See Nāṣif, Malak Ḥifnī
Balkin, Jack, 33, 54
Barlas, Asma, 194–195
Barrett, Amy Coney, 150–153
Bass, Hilarie, 250, 252–253, 269
Battered Woman, The. See Walker, Lenore
battered woman syndrome, 281–283, 285–288
Baude, William, 141, 143
Bell, Derrick, 178
Bennett, Mark W., 235, 242
Berenguer, Elizabeth, 4, 46, 55, 296
Berger, Raoul, 18, 36
Government by Judiciary, 22, 24
Bernstein, David, 177–178
Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law. See Farber, Daniel; Sherry, Suzanna
Bible, 75
Biden, Joe, 170
big law firms and culture, 260–261, 263–267, 270
Bint al-Shāṭi’ (pen name). See ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿĀʿishah
Bizzell, Patricia, 276
Black Lives Matter, 217, 219, 223, 239, 297
Blackmun, Harry A., 111, 115, 128
Blackstone, William, 90
BLM. See Black Lives Matter
Blow, Charles, 222
bon sens, 160
Bowers v. Hardwick, 61–63
Brandeis, Louis B., 54, 106
The Right to Privacy, 106
Brennan Center for Justice, 245
broken windows policy, 213
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 18, 23, 26, 28, 34, 64, 166, 171
Bruen. See New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
Brutus. See Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Bryant, Susan, 278
Buller, Francis, 125
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 243
Burke, Kenneth, 55–56
Bush, George W., 21, 143
busing, 170–176
Butler, Judith, 229–232, 237–245
Frames of War, 231
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, 231
Camper, Martin, 75
canons of construction or interpretation. See interpretation
canons, rhetorical, 74
Carbado, Devin W., 209
carceral state, 234, 238
Cartesian thought, 160, 249–250, 267
case method (legal education), 288
casebooks, 274, 278–281, 284, 287, 289–290
Center for Women in Law, 253
Chadderton, Charlotte, 230
character. See ethos
characterology, 147
Charles River Associates, 253
Chettle v. Chettle, 125
Chudleigh, Mary, 249
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 73, 76, 91
Brutus, 73
De Inventione, 72–75, 145
De Oratore, 73
Topica, 73
Civil War, United States, 236–237
Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis (UNLV symposium), 296
clear and present danger, 54
Clear, Todd R., 242
CNN, 238
cocaine, 229, 233–236, 241–242
colonialism, 182, 193, 196–197
colorblind jurisprudence, 176
Columbus, Christopher, 198
common sense. See sensus communis
communal indwelling, 21
compelling state interest, 106, 108, 173
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, 234
Condit, Celeste M., 208
Confrontation Clause. See United States Constitution
confrontational homicides, 288
congressional redistricting, 141
Connecticut National Bank v. Germain, 86–87
constitutional interpretation. See interpretation
constitutive rhetoric, 105, 185
constraint principle, 31
construction zone, 32
contentio, 249, 256–257, 262, 267–269
context, 77
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 181
Corax of Syracuse, 46
Coventry, Ann, 249
Cover, Robert, 231
COVID-19, 149, 297
crack cocaine. See cocaine
Crawford v. Washington, 119–120, 122, 126, 128, 131–136
Crimes Act of 1790, 237
criminal law, 218, 281
Criminal Law: Cases and Materials. See Dressler, Joshua; Garvey, Stephen P.
Critique of Practical Reason. See Kant, Emmanuel
Crump, Ben, 217
Ctesiphon, 58–60
cultural biases, 184
cultural competence, 274, 278
cultural memory, 54
culture. See legal culture; rhetorical culture
D.A. v. Texas Health Presbyterian, 72, 76, 78–81, 90–91
Dabbous, Sonia, 198
Damele, Giovanni, 101, 111
David Floyd. See Floyd v. City of New York
Davis v. Washington, 122, 133–136
Davis, Kirsten K., 4
De Inventione. See Cicero, Marcus Tullius
De Oratore. See Cicero, Marcus Tullius
deadly force, 282, 290
death penalty cases, 143
decolonial studies, 193
deduction, 4, 71, 84, 100, 116–117, 189
deference. See judicial deference
Demosthenes, 58–60
Against Aristocrates, 51, 59
Against Timocrates, 52
On the Crown, 43, 60
On the Dishonest Embassy, 60
Descartes, René, 160, 263
desegregation, school, 170–173, 176
determinacy, 70, 72, 82–87
determinist imaginary, 70–91
dicast, 43
Diels, Hermann, 275
Discourse Concerning the Love of God. See Masham, Damaris
disidentification, 232
dissenting opinions, 28, 63–64, 85, 109, 112–113, 141, 143, 148–151, 168, 279, 283–287
Dissoi Logoi, 73, 273–279, 288–290
District of Columbia v. Heller, 29, 34, 46, 48–50, 53
diversity, 253, 263, 269, 271
divorce, 201
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 52, 56, 97–117
dokimasia rhetoron, 60
domestic violence, 32, See also intimate partner violence
Downs, Leroy, 205, 217
doxa, 161
Draco, 42, 52, 54, 60
Dressler, Joshua, 283
Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, 279–281, 284–290
Due Process Clause. See United States Constitution
Egypt, 196
1919 Revolution, 199
1952 Revolution, 200
1956 Constitution, 200
Personal Status Law, 200
Egyptian Feminist Union, 199
Egyptian National Parliament, 200
‘Eissá, Ibrahīm, 201
election cases, 143
Eloquence of Mary Astell, The. See Sutherland, Christine Mason
Elrod v. Burns, 152
emergency orders, 141
Employment Division v. Smith, 153
endeixis, 50
enthymeme, 97–117, 183, 187–188, 198
Epicrates
Against Athenogenes, 53
epideictic rhetoric, 188
Equal Protection Clause. See United States Constitution
equity, 27, 74–75, 91, 145, 187–188, 200
inequity, 166, 174, 176, 185
racial, 168, 174
Erickson. See Hunter v. Erickson
Erlichman, John, 238
Esposito, John L., 190, 193
Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. See Locke, John
ethical surplus, 37
ethos, 17–38, 43, 54, 56, 58, 66, 119–137, 151, 249, 251–256, 269, 295
as dwelling, 20
extrinsic, 251–254
as indwelling, 26, 30, 35, 37
intrinsic, 251–255
eunoia, 18–19, 21
Euthycles, 51
executive privilege, 23
expert witness testimony, 279–281, 285
extrinsic context, 77
eyewitness, 125, 279
fair housing, 167–170
Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, 234
Farber, Daniel
Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law, 276
Farewell Speech. See Muḥammad
Farooq, Mohammad Omar, 188
Fātin Amal Ḥarbī (TV series), 201
Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates, 181
Federal Rules of Evidence, 126
female infanticide, 191–193, 195
Feminist Judgments, 8, 281
firearms, 46, 50
fixation thesis, 31–33
Florida v. Bostick, 211, 219
Floyd v. City of New York, 205–207, 210, 216–222
Floyd, George, 206, 297
Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates. See Robinson, William C.
formalism, legal, 7, 100
Fourteenth Amendment. See United States Constitution
Fourth Amendment. See United States Constitution
Framers. See United States Constitution
frames of war, 229, 231, 235–239, 243–244
Frames of War. See Butler, Judith
Free Exercise Clause. See United States Constitution
freedom of speech, 54
Fuller, Lon L., 70, 82
Fuller, Patrick, 253, 268
furtive movements (ideograph), 211, 220
Gagarin, Michael, 276
Gaines, Robert N., 297
Garner, Bryan A., 70–91, 97
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, 72, 81–87, 89–91
Garver, Eugene, 18, 37
Garvey, Stephen P.
Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, 279–281, 284–290
gender, 188, 191, 193, 197, 230–231, 251, 259–260, 264–265, 268–271, 278
gender-nonconforming persons, 256
Gilbert, Geoffrey, 125–126
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 63
glass ceiling, 199
Glucksberg. See Washington v. Glucksberg
goodwill. See eunoia
Gordon, Thomas F., 100
Gore, Al, 21
Gorgias, 73
Gorsuch, Neil, 35, 150, 153–154
Gottschalk, Marie, 238
Government by Judiciary. See Berger, Raoul
grammar canon, 84
Greece, ancient, 3, 6, 38, 53, 73, 156, 273–275, 295
Greek city states, 3
Greek lawgivers, 53
Greek legal system, 156
Greenberg Traurig, 252
grievability, 232, 242–243, 245
Guantanamo Bay, 231
habeas corpus, 231
ḥadīth, 186–187, 194
Halgren, Guy N., 263
Hamilton, Alexander, 25
Hammon v. Indiana, 122, 133–136
Hardwick, Michael, 62
Harlan, John Marshall, II, 168–169
Harris, Kamala, 170
Harvard University, 6, 71, 76, 273, 279
Hastings, Elizabeth, 249
Hauser, Gerard A., 183
headnotes, 286
hearsay, 119–137
Hearsay Rule, 126–128
Heidegger, Martin, 18–20
Heller. See District of Columbia v. Heller
Herzberg, Bruce, 276
high crime area (ideograph), 211, 215, 219–220
Ḥizb al-Umah, 197, 199
Hobbes, Thomas, 75
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 71
homicides, 288
homosexuality. See same-sex attraction
Hooker, Juliet, 217
House Judiciary Committee, 144
Howe, Justine, 193–194
Huhn, Wilson, 43
Hunter v. Erickson, 165, 168–172, 177
identification, 55–57, 215–216, 230–232
identity formation, 230
ideograph, 205–224
ideology, 122–123, 130–131, 136–137, 190, 206–209
imaginary. See determinist imaginary
imminence or imminent danger or threat, 279, 282–283, 287–288, 290
indeterminacy, 70–91
Indigenous rhetorical tradition, 4, 296
indwelling, 21, 26, 30, 35
inequity. See equity
influenza pandemic of 1918–19, 199
INS v. Delgado, 212
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 181
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 181
interpellation, 186
interpretation
Biblical, 75
canons, 38, 76, 79, 81–87
constitutional, 17, 22, 28, 30
extrinsic aids, 87
interpretation–construction distinction, 35
legal, 17, 43, 47, 64, 72, 89, 98, 231
Qur’ānic, 190, 194
statutory, 28, 38, 72, 76, 81, 117
interpretation–construction distinction. See interpretation
interpretive-direction canon, 86
intimate partner violence, 133, 280–283
intrinsic context, 77
invention (canon of rhetoric), 71–74, 142, 144–153, 155, 274, 277
IRAC model, 102
Jackson, Ketanji Brown, 57
Jarratt, Susan, 275
Jefferson, Thomas, 53
Jewel, Lucy, 4, 46, 55, 296
Jim Crow, 243
John Hancock Financial, 253
Johnson, Lyndon, 166
Jones, Catherine, 249
Jost, Walter, 20
judicial activism, 115
judicial deference, 18, 23, 25–26, 29–30, 36
judicial restraint, 89–91
judiciary, role of, 103
jurisprudence of rules, 28
justice (ideograph), 211, 217, 220, 222–223
Kagan, Elena, 17, 35, 37, 141
kairos, 223
Kant, Emmanuel
Critique of Practical Reason, 76
Kapoor, Vetan, 154
Kavanaugh, Brett, 150, 153
Kelling, George L., 213
Kennedy, Anthony, 28, 38, 62–63, 165
Kennedy, George A., 3
Kerner Commission, 167
Kerner Report, 169
khuṭbat al-wadā’. See Muḥammad, Farewell Speech
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 167
Letter from Birmingham Jail, 168
Koran. See Qur’ān
l’Egyptienne (newspaper), 199
Langdell, Christopher C., 71, 279
Larson, Brian N., 4, 6, 100
last-antecedent canon, 79, 85
Latine rhetorical tradition, 4, 296
law and literature movement, 7
law as constitutive activity, 105
lawgiver, 45
Lawrence v. Texas, 28, 38, 62, 65
learned helplessness, 281, 286
legal culture, 146–149
legal education, 273–274, 278, 288–290
legal interpretation. See interpretation
Legal Services Corporation, 250
legal-ethical rhetoric of rights, 183
legislative history, 77, 84, 86
Leocrates, 46, 48
Leptines, 59
Letter from Birmingham Jail. See King, Martin Luther, Jr.
letter vs. intent, 74–75
Letters Concerning the Love of God. See Astell, Mary
liberty (ideograph), 206–207, 211, 218, 222
Liebenberg, Roberta D., 252–253, 269
Lincoln, Abraham, 237
Lithwick, Dahlia, 103
living constitutionalism, 27, 33
Llewellyn, Karl, 37
LoBianco, Tom, 238
Locke, John, 75, 119, 122–126, 135, 254, 256
Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, 121–122, 124–125
logographer, 45
logos, 17–18, 32, 36, 120–123, 125–126, 128–132, 136, 256, 265
Loizidou, Elena, 231, 233, 244
London, 249, 254
Loving v. Virginia, 64
Lucaites, John L., 208
Lycurgus
Against Leocrates, 46, 48
Lysias, 51
Macagno, Fabrizio, 101, 111
Madison, James, 25, 53
Maḥmmūd Pasha Sulīmān, 197
Mahoney, Martha R., 281–283, 288
Majlis al-Ummah. See Egyptian National Parliament
Major, Lindsey & Africa, 264
Malebranche, Nicolas, 263
Mancusi v. Stubbs, 130
Manning, John, 30
Mansfield Rule, 271
marriage, 38, 64, 191, 200
Martin, Harry C., 283, 287
Martin, Trayvon, 217, 221
Masham, Damaris
Discourse Concerning the Love of God, 254
mass incarceration, 232–233, 242
Mattox v. United States, 129–130
McFadden, Tervor N., 154
McGee, Michael Calvin, 207–211, 223
McMurtry-Chubb, Teri A., 4, 46, 55, 296
memory, cultural, 54
memory, traditional, 54
Mernissi, Fatima, 194
Merrill v. Milligan, 141
Mertz, Elizabeth, 278
metaphor, 160, 208, 236–237, 257–258, 268
Middle East, 181–182
Mississippi Goddamn. See Simone, Nina
Montagu, Mary Wortley, 250
Moore v. City of East Cleveland, 52
Mootz, Francis J., III, 4, 70, 275–276
moral discord, 186
Moral Majority, 213
moral order, 184–186, 188, 198
Moskal v. United States, 85
Mount ‘Arafāt, 187
MTV, 213
Muḥammad, 186–189, 197
Farewell Speech, 187–189, 197
Mulkey. See Reitman v. Mulkey
multiculturalism, 276
Muslim world. See Arab(ic)-Muslim world
Nādī Ḥizb al-Umah. See Nation’s Party Club
Nahḍah, 195–199
Naples’s legal system, 159
Napoléon, 196
narrative, 6, 29, 42–66, 105, 194–195, 217
narrowly tailored. See strict scrutiny
Nāṣif, Malak Ḥifnī, 196–199
Nation’s Party Club, 197, 201
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 167
National Association for Law Placement, 260
National Public Radio, 217
Nazi Germany, 237
nearest-reasonable-referent canon, 80, 85
negative rights. See rights
negligence, 77
Nevada Law Journal, 297
New Deal, 72
New Science, The. See Vico, Giambattista
New York City, 215–219
New York Police Department, 206, 212, 217, 220–222
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 50
New York Times, 221
Newcastle upon Tyne, 249
Nixon, Richard M., 23, 236, 238
non-binary persons, 256
nonconfrontational homicides, 288
Norman, John Thomas (“J.T.”), 278
Norman, Judy Ann Laws, 278
Norris, John, 254
North Africa, 182
North Carolina Supreme Court, 282
NYPD. See New York Police Department
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 213
Obama, Barack H., 143, 218, 221
Obergefell v. Hodges, 29, 38, 61, 64, 110
Ohio v. Roberts, 120, 128–131
On Invention. See Cicero, Marcus Tullius
On Rhetoric. See Aristotle
On the Crown. See Demosthenes
On the Dishonest Embassy. See Demosthenes
On the Soul. See Aristotle
ordinary meaning, 17, 27
orientalism, 182, 193
original meaning, 22, 24–27, 31–34, 52, 131
originalism, 17–38, 71, 108, 164
Osler, Mark, 235, 242
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 170, 173
pathos, 17–18, 57, 66, 99, 121, 129, 258, 268
patriarchy, 46, 55, 182, 184, 193–195
patrios politeia, 42
People v. De Bour, 212, 219
Perelman, Chaïm, 147
Personal Status Law. See Egypt
Peters, Jean Koh, 278
Phaedrus. See Plato
Philip of Macedon, 48, 58
phronesis, 19, See practical wisdom
pistis/-eis, 18
plain language, 78
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 104, 109, 115
Plato, 6–7, 46, 56, 73, 273, 276
Phaedrus, 56
Plessy v. Ferguson, 166
Polemarchus, 51
police power (ideograph), 206, 208, 210–224
Pollock, Frederick, 84
polygamy, 197
positive rights. See rights
postmodernism, 99
Poulakos, John, 274–275, 277
practical reason, 18–21, 23, 26–27, 30, 32, 34, 70, 72–73, 76, 81, 83, 87, 89
practical wisdom, 4, 18, 20
precarious life, 229, 231, 239–243, 245
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. See Butler, Judith
precedent, 28, 45, 55–56, 103, 111, 115–116, 144–145, 147–156, 209
premises (argumentative), 97–98, 101
implicit, omitted, or hidden, 98, 100–101, 103–105, 111
Priester, Benjamin, 30
Prior Analytics. See Aristotle
privacy rights. See rights
progressive advocacy, 46
progressive movements, 44
Prophetic tradition. See sunnah
Proposal 2 (Michigan constitutional amendment), 164
prostitution, 60, 278, 283
Protagoras, 274–275
PSL. See Egypt, Personal Status Law
psychologist, forensic, 285
psychology, abnormal, 286
psychotherapeutic discourse, 289
public arguments, 142, 146, 154
punctuation canon, 85
quasi-logical reasoning, 99, 103, 116
Quintilian, 6, 19
Qur’ān, 186, 189–195
Qur’ānic interpretation. See interpretation
racial biases, 221
racial status quo, 166, 172
racism, 232
racist hierarchy, 239
Ratcliffe, Krista, 274, 277, 280, 289
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. See Garner, Bryan A.; Scalia, Antonin
Reagan, Nancy, 236
Reagan, Ronald, 214–215, 233, 236, 240–242
reasonable suspicion, 211, 220
Rehnquist, William H., 52
Reitman v. Mulkey, 165–169, 172, 177
related-statutes canon, 80, 86
reproductive rights, 52, 56, 102–117
Rhetoric. See Aristotle
rhetoric, definition of, 6
rhetorical culture, 207–209, 214, 216–222
rhetorical listening, 274, 277–278, 280, 289–290
rhetorical traditions
African Diasporic, 4, 296
Arabic-Islamic, 181–202
Asian Diasporic, 4, 296
Indigenous, 4, 296
Latine, 4, 296
traditional texts, 5
Western, 4–6, 44, 55, 66, 296
Rhodes, 46
Rich Wilkin, 254
right to privacy (ideograph), 207
Right to Privacy, The. See Brandeis, Louis B.; Warren, Samuel D.
rights
in Arab(ic)-Islamic discourse, 185
epistemic, 197
fundamental, 49, 51, 62, 64, 106, 108, 110
to learn, 197
negative, 184, 188–190, 198
positive, 184, 188–190, 198
privacy, 105–110
unenumerated, 108, 110, 112, 114
vernacular discourses, 183, 187–188, 196, 199
women’s, 181–202
Roberts Court, 47
Roberts, John G., Jr., 47, 72, 143, 165
Robinson, Thomas M., 275
Robinson, William C.
Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates, 76
Rockefeller laws, 233
Roe v. Wade, 81, 103, 107, 109, 111, 115
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn NY v. Cuomo, 142, 150–154
Rome, ancient, 6, 295
history, 160
legal arguments, 145
oratory, 160
Romer v. Evans, 28
Rountree, Clarke, 297
Salama, Samir, 181
same-sex attraction, 38, 61–64
same-sex marriage, 64
Sanders, Steve, 176–177
Saratoga Springs, New York, 250
Scalia, Antonin, 18, 36, 38, 50, 57, 63–64, 70–91, 97, 119, 126, 131–133, 151, 153
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, 72, 81–87, 89–91
Scallen, Eileen, 275
Schaeffer, John, 159–161, 164
Scharf, Stephanie A., 252–253, 269
Scheindlin, Shira, 206, 218–222
Schiappa, Edward, 274
Schrag, Calvin, 20
Schuette v. BAMN, 158, 164–179
Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary. See Schuette v. BAMN
scripts, cultural, 230–232, 242, 245
Seattle. See Washington v. Seattle School District No. 1
Second Amendment. See United States Constitution
Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, 181
Segall, Eric, 30, 35
segregation, 232
segregation, de jure, 173
self-defense, 46, 49, 279, 282–287
Seligman, Martin, 281
sensus communis, 158–179
Sentencing Reform Act, 234
September 11, 2001, 216
series-qualifier canon, 80, 85
Serious Proposal to the Ladies, A. See Astell, Mary
sermo, 249, 256–257, 262, 267–269
Sextus Empiricus, 275
sexual abuse, 265
sexual harrassment, 265
shadow docket, 141
Shafīq, Durrīyah, 200
Shāh’s, Ḥusn, 200
shared identity, 55
sharī‘a law, 181, 187
Shaw, Kate, 57
Sheppard Mullin, 253
Sherry, Suzanna
Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law, 276
Shukrī, Amīnah, 200
Sibron v. New York, 212
Siegel, Neil S., 103
Simone, Nina
Mississippi Goddamn, 168
Sinsheimer, Ann, 223
Sixth Amendment. See United States Constitution
Slaughter, Anne-Marie, 273
Snowden Leaks, 216
social biases, 184
social class, 270
social hierarchies, 231
sodomy, 61–63
Solon, 42, 52, 54, 59–60
Solum, Lawrence (“Larry”), 18, 31–36
sophists, 4, 6, 73, 273–277
Sotomayor, Sonia, 154
soundness (logical), 113–115
South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, 149
Special Committee on Legal Aid Work, 250
speech, freedom of, 54
Sprague, Rosamond Kent, 275
stained-glass ceiling, 199
stand your ground legislation, 217
stare decisis. See precedent
stasis of quality, 192
State v. Norman, 274, 278–290
statutory construction. See interpretation
statutory interpretation. See interpretation
stereotypes, 179, 184, 274, 281, 283, 285, 288, 290
Stevens, John Paul, 29, 87, 216
stop-and-frisk policies, 205–224
Story, Joseph, 71
strategic ambiguity. See ambiguity
strict scrutiny, 106, 108, 112, 166, 173
Strict Scrutiny (podcast), 57
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 166
subjectivity, 7, 100, 121, 125, 128, 130, 134, 136, 186, 230, 290
suicide, assisted, 52, 110
sunnah, 186, 188
Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, 201
surplusage canon, 85
surveillance, 216
Sutherland, Christine Mason
Eloquence of Mary Astell, The, 249
Syed, Khalida Tanvir, 190, 194
syllogism, 4, 97–117, 188, 192
Syria, 196
Taḥt al-Uṣāiyah (TV series), 201
Taylor, Charles, 71
Taylor, John Pitt, 125
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, 253
techne, 19
Terry stops. See Terry v. Ohio
Terry v. Ohio, 212, 219
testimonial statements, 131, 134
Texas Court of Appeals, 72, 78–81
Texas Health Presbyterian v. D.A., 72, 76, 87–89, 91
Texas Supreme Court, 87–89
textual integrity, 25, 29
textual interpretation. See interpretation
textualism, 71, 76–77, 90
Thirteenth Amendment. See United States Constitution
Thomas, Clarence, 150, 153
Thompson v. Travanion, 125
Timarchus, 60
Tiscione, Kristen K., 4, 6
Topica. See Cicero, Marcus Tullius
topos/-oi, 20, 43, 142, 144–147, 150, 152–154, 183–184, 187, 190, 195–197, 295
tradition, 5, 42–66, 89–91, 160
traditional memory, 54
Trump, Donald J., 36
tyrant custom, 257, 259
underdeterminacy, 70–91
unenumerated rights. See rights
ungrievability. See grievability
United States Census, 243
United States Constitution, 21–27, 30–37, 49, 54, 71, 76, 90, 98, 104, 127–128, 131, 147, 210
Article III, 90
Confrontation Clause, 119–120, 131–134
Due Process Clause, 23, 52, 61, 104, 110–111
Equal Protection Clause, 158, 165–168, 170, 173, 176, 206, 209
First Amendment, 54, 149, 152
Fourteenth Amendment, 22, 25, 51, 65, 104, 110, 112–113, 165–166, 206, 218
Fourth Amendment, 206, 211, 218–219, 223
Framers, 20, 22–26, 33, 37, 53, 57, 73, 112, 131
Free Exercise Clause, 149, 152–153, 155
Second Amendment, 29, 46, 49–50, 53–54
Sixth Amendment, 119, 127, 131–132
Thirteenth Amendment, 211
United States Sentencing Commission, 234–235
United States v. Booker, 234
United States v. Virginia, 63
University of Naples, 159
unreasonable searches and seizures. See United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment
Urīd Hala (film), 200
Urīd Ḥala (newspaper column), 200
ūṣīkum bil-nisā’ khaīran, 183, 187–189, 198
USSC. See United States Sentencing Commission
validity (logical), 113–115
veil, 197
vernacular rhetorics, 182–184, 187–188, 196, 199
vernacular rights discourses, 183, 187–188, 196, 199
Vico, Giambattista, 158–164
New Science, The, 161, 164
Virginia Military Institute, 63
Virginia, Commonwealth of, 64
VISA, 253
Vladeck, Stephen I., 143, 152–153, 155
Voting Rights Act, 141
Wacquant, Loïc, 242–243
Walker, Lenore, 281
Battered Woman, The, 286
Walking Out the Door: The Facts, Figures, and Future of Experienced Women Lawyers in Private Practice, 248–272
Wallace, George, 178
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 253
Walton, Douglas, 100
war on drugs, 213–214, 217, 222, 229, 233, 235–242, 244
war on terror, 217, 237
Warren Court, 23, 72, 178, 213
Warren, Samuel D., II, 106
Right to Privacy, The, 106
Washington v. Glucksberg, 49, 52, 110–112
Washington v. Seattle School District No. 1, 165, 170–174, 177
Western rhetorical tradition, 4–6, 44, 55, 66, 296
Wetlaufer, Gerald, 7
white supremacy, 46, 166, 172, 174, 178, 239, 242–243, 245
White, James Boyd, 7, 105, 155
Whitney v. California, 54
Whren v. United States, 215, 219, 238–239
will (testament), 74
willful and wanton negligence, 78
Williams, Patricia J., 7
Wilson, James Q., 213
women in the legal profession, 248–272
women of color, 109, 250
women’s rights, 181–202
World War II, 236
Yale University, 76
Yankah, Ekow, 221
Yūnis, Ilhām, 201
yuppies, 213
Zimmerman, George, 217

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