INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL LEGAL RHETORICPDF电子书下载

1 Greco-Roman Rhetoric: The Canon and its History 1

Principles of Greco-Roman Forensic Rhetoric: The Canon 4

Medieval Rhetoric 6

Renaissance Rhetoric 8

English Neoclassical Rhetoric 10

Classical Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century America 12

Classical Rhetoric in Twentieth-Century America 13

2 Greco-Roman Legal Analysis: The Topics of Invention 23

Dialectical ‘Proof ’and Rhetorical ‘Probability’ 24

Factual Analysis 26

Topoi or Common Lines of Argument 27

Modern Approaches to the Topics of Invention 36

Similarities and Differences 37

3 Brief Rhetoric: The Organization of Argument 44

Classical Principles of Organization 45

4 Ethos, Pathos and Legal Audience 57

Emotion and Advocate Credibility 57

Greco-Roman Approaches to Persuasion 57

Greco-Roman Audiences 58

Emotion and Argument: Pathos 60

Emotion and the Character of the Judge 62

Emotion and Organization 63

Ethos and Lawyer Credibility 67

Ethos and Pathos: The Modem View 70

Similarities and Differences 77

5 Greco-Roman Analysis of Metaphoric Reasoning 85

Classical Approaches to Metaphor 86

Modern Analysis of Legal Metaphors 94

Modem Theories of Metaphoric Reasoning 97

Similarities and Differences 102

6 Greco-Roman Elements of Forensic Style 109

Classical Approach to Antithesis and Parallelism 109

Modem Approaches to Antithesis and Parallelism 112

Similarities and Differences 116

7 The Rhetoric of Dissent: A Greco-Roman Analysis 119

Limits of Dissent 120

United States v. Virginia: The Majority Opinion 124

Justice Scalia’s Dissent 125

Conclusion 139

Bibliography 148

Index 153