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Rhetorical processes and legal judgments : how language and arguments shape struggles for rights and power /

This detailed analysis offers new perspectives on rhetoric and law from distinguished scholars.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; The relevance of rhetoric: an introduction; 1 From "equality before the law" to "separate but equal": legal rhetoric, legal history, and Roberts v. Boston (1849); 2 "The civilizing hand of law": defending the legal process in the civil rights era; 3 The evolving rhetoric of the gay rights and same-sex marriage debate; 4 The rhetoric of precedent; 5 Alternative conceptions of legal rhetoric: open hand, closed fist.