Ryan Malphurs

Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments (eBook, ePUB)

Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the rhetoric, discourse, and decision-making within significant Supreme Court cases. Contributing to the fields of communication, law, psychology, and political science, Malphurs considers their potential power and danger and reveals the dynamic nature of the justices' interactions among themselves and the advocates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136182297
• Artikelnr.: 38252997

Autorenporträt

Ryan Malphurs earned a PhD in Communication from Texas A&M University, USA, and is a Senior Litigation Consultant for Courtroom Sciences, Inc.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Letter to the Chief Justice of the United States 2. Historical
Development of Legal Rhetoric and Supreme Court Oral Arguments 3. Do Oral
Arguments before the Supreme Court Matter? A Simple Explanation 4. New
Question: Oral Arguments "Matter," But How Do We Make Sense of Them? A
Modest Proposal 5. Critical Theories and Research Questions: Proposing a
Method to Capture the Madness of Oral Arguments 6. The Many Faces of Oral
Argument: Oral Argument's Purposes and the Justices' Styles 7. Arguing
about "Bong Hits 4 Jesus' Testing Theory and Method in Morse v. Frederick
8. Making Sense of Child Rapists in Kennedy v. Louisiana: A Firsthand
Observation 9. Historical Repercussions of Judicial Sensemaking: District
of Columbia v. Dick Anthony Heller 10. The Ground Covered and New Ground to
Uncover: Responding to Critics, Offering Recommendations, and a Final
Letter to the Chief Justice 11. Biased Sensemaking: Compromising the
Court's Rhetorical Authority