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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Legal Rhetoric"”.
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The rhetoric of the patent wars: how technology becomes "Common Sense"
… mobile computing. I combine classical and modern rhetorical notions of common sense and community with perspectives on society and technology offered by philosophers Charles Taylor and Andrew Feenberg. I apply this theoretical lens to three sets of texts: 1) public rhetoric surrounding Google's …
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Justifying War in Ukraine: An Analysis of Speeches, Excerpts and Interviews by Vladimir Putin
… Russian incursion into Ukraine through his own rhetoric, and further, whether this rhetoric changes when speaking to a domestic versus international audience. In the context of framing, this study analyzes 57 speeches, interviews, and excerpts of Vladimir Putin focused on the Crisis in Ukraine, …
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Judicial rhetoric and radical politics: sexuality, race, and the fourteenth amendment
“Judicial Rhetoric and Radical Politics: Sexuality, Race, and the Fourteenth Amendment” takes up U.S. judicial opinions as performances of sovereignty over the boundaries of legitimate subjectivity. The argumentative choices jurists make in producing judicial opinion delimit the grounds upon which …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
… the first recorded uses in English of the Latin legal term plagiary (kidnapper) as a metaphor for literary misappropriation, to an inchoate conception of literary property among a coterie of writers in early modern England. It argues that the recognition of literary misappropriation emerged as a …
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The Mythic Underpinnings of Originalism: A Rhetorical and Legal Analysis
… despite its presentation as a neutral legal methodology, functions as a mythic narrative rooted in American exceptionalism and reverence for the founding era. While contemporary legal and political conditions differ radically from those of the 18th century, originalist jurists insist on …
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The Authoritative Text: Raymond of Penyafort's Editing of the 'Decretals of Gregory IX' (1234)
… of Penyafort (1175-1275), actively shaped the legal content of the Decretals through eliminating, rewording, or supplementing the individual texts has remained elusive, in part because of the complicated manuscript tradition and in part because of our ignorance of all his sources. This …