Controversy, courts, and community : the rhetoric of Judge Miles Welton Lord
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Controversy, courts, and community : the rhetoric of Judge Miles Welton Lord
（Contributions in legal studies, no. 79）
Greenwood Press, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Explores how a famous trial court judge used rhetorical strategies to engage the public and the legal community in challenging the accepted views of the proper roles for the courts and the community in the pursuit of justice. Analyzes the role of Judge Lord in stimulating public debate about some well-known and controversial cases and in doing so helps enrich our understanding of how trial court judicial rhetoric and opinions can contribute to public understanding and a fruitful discussion of the law, the courts, and their relationship to the community.
Judge Lord made his opinions accessible and potentially persuasive to a public auidence through his attention to judicial personal, argument structures that helped to maintain a sense of dramatic narrative, the use of plain language, and the use of substitution, metaphor, and comparison. In addition to offering practical insights into the operation of trial courts, judicial persuasion, and the settlement of some important cases, provides an overview of different judicial approaches to the use of rhetoric. This in-depth study of a noted judge and important trials can serve as a useful text for students in law, communications, public policy, and American studies and will be of interest to scholars and professionals alike.
Table of Contents
Introduction Approaches to Law and Rhetoric Miles Welton Lord The Honorable, Rhetorical Miles Welton Lord Lord vs. Reserve Mining Company The Wages of Corporate Sin Arms, the Judge, and the Man Judicial Rhetoric and the Community Table of Cases Bibliography Index
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