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Getting Started and Lesson 1: "In the Beginning..."
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Lesson 2: Overview of Rhetoric
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- Read: “Rhetoric and Law: An Overview” by Malthon Anapol
- Complete and Submit Lesson 2 Assignment
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Lesson 3: Profile of American Judicial Systems and Trial Process
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Lesson 4: Overview of Law and “The Rhetoric of Law:” Law Constituting Community
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- Read: "American Legal Argumentation: The Law and Literature/Rhetoric Movement" by Eileen Scallen
- Read: “Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law” by James B. White
- Read (recommended): " Rhetoric and its Denial in Legal Discourse" by Gerald B. Wetlaufer
- Complete and Submit Lesson 4 Assignment
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Lesson 5: Argumentation and Persuasion
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- Read: "The Traditional Canons of Rhetoric" by Kristen K. Robbins-Tiscione
- Read: "Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Character" by K. Saunders
- Read: "Argment as character" by J. Frug
- Complete and Submit Lesson 5 Assignment
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Lesson 6: Trials: Case Strategy, Juries, Audience Analysis, Persuasion, and Ethics
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- Read: Thomas A. Mauet, Trials: Strategy, Skills, & New Powers of Persuasion (pages TBA)
- Read “Strategic Jury Selection” by Sobus & Davis
- Complete and Submit Lesson 6 Assignment
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Lesson 7: Trials: Opening Statements and Closing Arguments
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- Read: " The opening statement" by Rieke and Stutman
- Read: "Opening Statements: Lasting impressions" by L.S. Lilley
- Complete and Submit Lesson 7 Assignment
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Lesson 8: Trials: Rules of Evidence & Objections, Effective Use of Language, Direct Examination & Cross-Examination
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- Read: "Rhetorical transformation of evidence in criminal trials: Creating grounds for legal judgment" by W.L. Bennett
- Read: Brief Rhetoric- "A note on classical and modern theories of forensic discourse" by M. Frost
- Read: “Direct Examination” by D.C. Gibson
- Read: “Cross Examination” by D.C. Gibson
- Complete and Submit Lesson 8 Assignment
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Lesson 9: Appeals: The Appellate Process and Oral Argument
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- Review: Article III, The United States Constitution
- Review: The Federalist Papers, Number 78 and 81
- Read: "Supreme Court Rhetoric" by Prentice
- Read: "The Functions of Oral Argument in the U.S. Supreme Court" by Wasby, et. al
- Complete and Submit Lesson 9 Assignment
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Lesson 10: Invention, Interpretation, and Topoi
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- Read: " Speech presented to the American Bar Association" by E. Meese
- Read: " Speech presented to the Text and Teaching Symposium" by W. Brennan
- Read: " A topology of constitutional argument" by P. Bobbitt
- Read: "Greco-Roman legal analysis: The topics of invention" by M. Frost
- Complete and Submit Lesson 10 Assignment
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Lesson 11: Judicial Opinions: An Overview
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- Read: O’Brien, Storm center, "Deciding cases and writing opinions" pp. 255-287
- Read: " Introduction & The functions of the judicial opinion" by H. Bosmajian
- Read: "Judical Rhetoric and Women's Place" by Katie Gibson
- Complete and Submit Lesson 11 Assignment
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Lesson 12: Judicial Opinions: Majority, Concurring, and Dissenting
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- Read: "The judicial opinion as literacy genre" by R. Ferguson
- Read: "Judical opinion writing: The rhetoric of results and the results of rhetoric" by P. Wald
- Complete and Submit Lesson 12 Assignment
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Lesson 13: Rhetorical Criticism of Legal Texts
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- Read: "Of innocence, exclusion and the burning of flags" by W. Lewis
- Complete and Submit Lesson 13 Assignment
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Lesson 14: Final Assignment
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- Complete and Submit your Final Assignment.
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