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Below is volume 7 of J. ALWD. Please click on the inside tab to see the titles of the articles within a particular issue: the titles are linked to the online full text and to PDF files that may be downloaded.
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Fall 2010 ~ Metaphor & Narrative
In this issue, our authors show how better understanding of metaphor and story
can help lawyers become more discerning as legal readers and more effective
and persuasive as legal writers. Volume 7 includes twelve articles on
subjects ranging from readers’ reactions to persuasive storytelling in
briefs to analysis of the rhetorical effects of oral argument questioning by
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Fall 2010 ~ Metaphor & Narrative
articles & essays
Judging by the Numbers: An Empirical Study of the Power of Story
Kenneth D. Chestek
Storytelling Across the Curriculum: From Margin to Center, From Clinic to the Classroom
Carolyn Grose
Was Colonel Sanders a Terrorist?
An Essay on the Ethical Limits of Applied Legal Storytelling
Steven J. Johansen
Telling Through Type: Typography and Narrative in Legal Briefs
Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson
The Power of Metaphor: Thomas Jefferson's "Wall of Separation between Church & State"
Julie A. Oseid
Penumbral Thinking Revisited: Metaphor in Legal Argumentation
J. Christopher Rideout
Conserving the Canvas: Reducing the Environmental Footprint
of Legal Briefs by Re-imagining Court Rules and Document Design Strategies
Ruth Anne Robbins
Voice: Speaking for a Deaf Boy in Foster Care
Deborah A. Schmedemann
The Lost Narrative: The Connection Between Legal Narrative and Legal Ethics
Helena Whalen-Bridge
General Articles & Practice Notes
Making Sense of "Bong Hits 4 Jesus":
A Study of Rhetorical Discursive Bias in Morse v. Frederick
Ryan Malphurs
"To See Between": Interviewing as a Legal Research Tool
Susan L. Turley
Argument, Analogy, and Audience: Using Persuasive
Comparisons While Avoiding Unintended Effects
Bruce Ching