Rhetoric and Law: Sources

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Anapol, Malthon. "Rhetoric and Law: An Overview." Today's Speech 18, no. 4 (Fall1970 1970): 12-20.

Bacon, Jen. "Until Death Do Us Part: Lesbian Rhetorics of Relational Divorce." Women's Studies In Communication 35, no. 2 (January 2012): 158-177.

Bell, Shelby P. "What Does Silence Signify? Investigating the Rhetoric of Silence in Berghuis v. Thompkins." Western Journal Of Communication 78, no. 2 (March 2014): 175-193.

Black, Jason Edward. "Extending the Rights of Personhood, Voice, and Life to Sensate Others: A Homology of Right to Life and Animal Rights Rhetoric." Communication Quarterly 51, no. 3 (Summer2003 2003): 312-331.

Boshoff, Anél. "Law and Its Rhetoric of Violence." International Journal For The Semiotics Of Law 26, no. 2 (June 2013): 425-437.

Burgess, Sarah K. "Exposing the Ruins of Law: The Rhetorical Contours of Recognition's Demand." Philosophy & Rhetoric 48, no. 4 (November 2015): 516-535.

Coker, Calvin R. "Murder, Miscarriage, and Women’s Choice: Prudence in the Colorado Personhood Debate." Western Journal Of Communication 81, no. 3 (May 2017): 300-319.

Diab, Rashid. "Legal-Political Rhetoric, Human Rights, and the Constitution of Medina." Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 36 No. 3, Summer 2018; (pp. 219-243) DOI: 10.1525/rh.2018.36.3.219

Ferguson, Robert A. "Judicial Rhetoric and Ulysses in Government Hands." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 15, no. 3 (Fall2012 2012): 435-466.

Gibson, Katie L. "In Defense of Women's Rights: A Rhetorical Analysis of Judicial Dissent." Women's Studies In Communication 35, no. 2 (January 2012): 123-137.

Gibson, Katie L. "Judicial Rhetoric and Women's "Place": The United States Supreme Court's Darwinian Defense of Separate Spheres." Western Journal Of Communication 71, no. 2 (April 2007): 159-175.

Gooch, John Casey. "Reading, Writing, and Imagining the Law: Using James Boyd White's Theories as an Approach to Analyzing Legal Rhetoric." Rhetor. Journal Of The Canadian Society For The Study Of Rhetoric 4, (January 2011): 1-21.

Gorsevski, Ellen W. "Letters, Laws, and New (In)justice: The Rhetoric of Rights in Shaping Democracy." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 18, no. 4 (Winter2015 2015): 719-733.

Hasian, Marouf. "The Aesthetics of Legal Rhetoric: The Ambiguities of Race in Adarand v. Pena and the Beginning of the End of Affirmative Action." Howard Journal Of Communications 8, no. 1 (January 1997): 113-127.

Hasian, Marouf. "Domesticated Abolitionism, the “Human Cargo” of the Zong, and the British Legal Usage of Dehumanizing Rhetoric, 1783–1807." Western Journal Of Communication 76, no. 5 (October 2012): 503-519.

Hasian Jr., Marouf, and Earl Croasmun. "Rhetoric's Revenge: The Prospect of a Critical Legal Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 29, no. 4 (October 1996): 384-399.

Hasian Jr., Marouf, and Geoffrey D. Klinger. "Sarah Roberts and the Early History of the 'Separate but Equal' Doctrine: A Study in Rhetoric, Law, and Social Change." Communication Studies 53, no. 3 (Fall2002 2002): 269.

Heffer, Chris. "Revelation and Rhetoric: A Critical Model of Forensic Discourse." International Journal For The Semiotics Of Law 26, no. 2 (June 2013): 459-485.

Hillbruner, Anthony. "Rhetoric and Law: The Story of the Haywood Trial." Western Speech 29, no. 4 (Fall1965 1965): 232-237.

Jasinski, James. "The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Nomination Process." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 11, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 335-339.

Just, Gustavo. "Interpretative Choices and Objectivity-Oriented Legal Discourse: A Strategic Analysis of the ECtHR Ruling on the French Face Veil Ban." International Journal For The Semiotics Of Law 29, no. 3 (September 2016): 577-594.

Klinger, Geoffrey. "Rhetoric's Wide-Angle Lenses: How Legal Vision Can Be Enhanced With Rhetorical Glasses." Conference Proceedings — National Communication Association/American Forensic Association (Alta Conference On Argumentation) (January 1991): 359-363.

Krois, John Michael. "Peirce's Speculative Rhetoric and the Problem of Natural Law." Philosophy & Rhetoric 14, no. 1 (Winter1981 1981): 16-30.

Lewis, William, and John Louis Lucaites. "Race Trials: The Rhetoric of Victimage in the Racial Consciousness of 1930s America." Conference Proceedings — National Communication Association/American Forensic Association (Alta Conference On Argumentation) (January 1997): 269-274.

Longaker, Mark Garrett. "Adam Smith on Rhetoric and Phronesis, Law and Economics." Philosophy & Rhetoric 47, no. 1 (February 2014): 25-47.

Lunceford, Brett. "Armed Victims: The Ego Function of Second Amendment Rhetoric." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 18, no. 2 (Summer2015 2015): 333-345

Maciejewski, Jeffrey J. "Justice as a Nexus of Natural Law and Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 41, no. 1 (February 2008): 72-93.

Maciejewski, Jeffrey J. "Reason as a Nexus of Natural Law and Rhetoric." Journal Of Business Ethics 59, no. 3 (July 2005): 247-257.

Madsen, Arnie, and Robert C. Chandler. "Prophets and Priests: Argument By and Before the Supreme Court." Conference Proceedings — National Communication Association/American Forensic Association (Alta Conference On Argumentation) (January 1991): 364-369.

McComiskey, Bruce. "Laws, Works, and the End of Days: Rhetorics of Identification, Distinction, and Persuasion in "Miqşat Ma'aśeh ha-Torah" (Dead Sea Scroll 4QMMT)." Rhetoric Review 29, no. 3 (July 2010): 221-238.

Miklós, Könczöl. "What There is Left and How It Works: Ancient Rhetoric and the Semiotics of Law." International Journal For The Semiotics Of Law 22, no. 4 (December 2009): 399-410.

Mills, Robert Elliot. "The Pirate and the Sovereign: Negative Identification and the Constitutive Rhetoric of the Nation-State." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 105-135.

Mootz III, Francis J. "Perelman's Theory of Argumentation and Natural Law." Philosophy & Rhetoric 43, no. 4 (November 2010): 383-402.

Olmsted, Wendy Raudenbush. "The Uses of Rhetoric: Indeterminacy in Legal Resoning, Practical Thinking and the Interpretation of Literary Figures." Philosophy & Rhetoric 24, no. 1 (Winter1991 1991): 1-24.

Panetta, Edward M., and Marouf Hasian. Jr. "Anti-rhetoric as rhetoric: The Law and Economics movement." Communication Quarterly 42, no. 1 (Winter94 1994): 57-74.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. "The Character of Criticism: Reflections on the Critical Inquiry of Political and Legal Rhetoric." Review Of Communication 10, no. 1 (January 2010): 84-95.

Primack, Alvin J. "Youth sexting and the First Amendment: Rhetoric and child pornography doctrine in the age of translation." New Media & Society 20, no. 8 (August 2018): 2917-2933.

Rand, Erin J. "Fear the Frill: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Uncertain Futurity of Feminist Judicial Dissent." Quarterly Journal Of Speech 101, no. 1 (February 2015): 72-84.

Schmid, Ulrich. 2010. “Constitution and Narrative: Peculiarities of Rhetoric and Genre in the Foundational Laws of the USSR and the Russian Federation.” Studies in East European Thought 62 (3/4): 431–51. doi:10.1007/s11212-010-9122-y.

Shecaira, Fábio Perin, and Noel Struchiner. "Legal Audiences." Argumentation 32, no. 2 (June 2018): 273-291.

Stache, Lara. "The Rhetoric of Anonymous: Identity, Strategy and Morality." Conference Proceedings — National Communication Association/American Forensic Association (Alta Conference On Argumentation) (July 2011): 671-677.

Thimsen, A. Freya. "The People Against Corporate Personhood: Doxa and Dissensual Democracy." Quarterly Journal Of Speech 101, no. 3 (August 2015): 485-508.

Vats, Anjali. "Marking Disidentification: Race, Corporeality, and Resistance in Trademark Law." Southern Communication Journal 81, no. 4 (September 2016): 237-251.

Vicaro, Michael Paul. "Deconstitutive rhetoric: The destruction of legal personhood in the Global War on Terrorism." Quarterly Journal Of Speech 102, no. 4 (November 2016): 333-352

Xiong, Minghui, and Frank Zenker. "Legal Facts in Argumentation-Based Litigation Games." Argumentation 32, no. 2 (June 2018): 197-211.

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