Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments
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Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments

How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power

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eBook - PDF

Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments

How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power

About this book

Over the last several decades legal scholars have plumbed law's rhetorical life. Scholars have done so under various rubrics, with law and literature being among the most fruitful venues for the exploration of law's rhetoric and the way rhetoric shapes law. Today, new approaches are shaping this exploration. Among the most important of these approaches is the turn toward history and toward what might be called an 'embedded' analysis of rhetoric in law. Historical and embedded approaches locate that analysis in particular contexts, seeking to draw our attention to how the rhetorical dimensions of legal life works in those contexts. Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments seeks to advance that mode of analysis and also to contribute to the understanding of the rhetorical structure of judicial arguments and opinions.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781107155503
eBook ISBN
9781316792940
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. The relevance of rhetoric: an introduction
  11. 1 From “equality before the law” to “separate but equal”: legal rhetoric, legal history, and Roberts v. Boston (1849)
  12. 2 “The civilizing hand of law”: defending the legal process in the civil rights era
  13. 3 The evolving rhetoric of the gay rights and same-sex marriage debate
  14. 4 The rhetoric of precedent
  15. 5 Alternative conceptions of legal rhetoric: open hand, closed fist
  16. Afterword: Use your words: rhetoric as absence of law, rhetoric as essence of law
  17. Index