Full Description
Through the lenses of comparative and critical rhetoric, this book theorizes how alternative approaches to communication can transform legal meanings and legal outcomes, infusing them with more inclusive participation, equity and justice.
Viewing legal language through a radical lens, the book sets aside longstanding norms that derive from White and Euro-centric approaches in order to re-situate legal methods as products of new rhetorical models that come from diasporic and non-Western cultures.
The book urges readers to re-consider how they think about logic and rhetoric and to consider other ways of building knowledge that can heal the law's current structures that often perpetuate and reinforce systems of privilege and power.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: What's Wrong with Aristotle?
Chapter 2: Problematizing Aristotle: Renovating and Remodeling Traditional Legal Rhetoric
Chapter 3: Shifting the Focus from the West
Chapter 4: Multicultural Rhetorics
Chapter 5: Reproducing the Canon, Reproducing Inequity (Traditional Rhetoric)
Chapter 6: Interrupting the Canon
Chapter 7: Disrupting the Canon: Multicultural Rhetorical Strategies in Action
