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Book SynopsisA collection of essays providing an interdisciplinary account of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's judicial rhetoric.
Trade Review“The Rhetoric of Judging Well truly blazes a trail about how to take the rhetoric of legal reasoning out of the partisan, polarized world of legal journalism and bring it intelligibly into public discourse. Rhetoricians will gain copious insights about legal reasoning, and legal scholars will discover rhetorical tools for their research.”
—William M. Keith,coauthor of Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship
“The Rhetoric of Judging Well offers a distinctive approach to legal rhetoric by providing a comprehensive and thorough account of the jurisprudence of a single, important justice. I know of no other book quite like it.”
—Austin Sarat,author of When Governments Break the Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1. Judgment in Classical Rhetoric
1. Justice Kennedy and the Interpretation of Legal Texts: The Classical Background
Michael Gagarin
2. Sex and Moral Pollution in the Rhetoric of Justice Kennedy
Eugene Garver
Part 2. Judgment in Stasis Theory
3. Justice Kennedy’s Definitional Construction of Gay Rights in Lawrence and Obergefell: Legal Rhetorical Analysis with the Interpretive Stases
Martin Camper
4. Justice Kennedy, Natural Liberty, and Classical Stasis Theory: Advancing Free Speech with Rhetorical Knowledge and Interpretive Argumentation
Susan E. Provenzano
5. Romer v. Evans: Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia, and the Rhetoric of Judging Well
Sean Patrick O’Rourke
Part 3. Judgment in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
6. Constructing a Free Agent: “Good Judgment” in Justice Kennedy’s Lawrence v. Texas Opinion
Clarke Rountree
7. Justice Kennedy and Natural Law Argumentation
Francis J. Mootz III
8. Justice Kennedy, Federalism, and the Nonproduction of Rhetorical Knowledge
Darien Shanske
Part 4. Judgment and Justice Kennedy’s Ethos
9. Justice Kennedy’s Free Speech Optimism
Ashutosh Bhagwat
10. Strongmen and Neurotics: Visible Struggle and the Construction of Judicial Ethos
James A. Gardner
11. The Anticlassification Topic and Equal-Liberty Template
Leslie Gielow Jacobs
Part 5. Justice Kennedy’s Misjudgments: Women, Race, and Immigrants
12. Performing a “View from Nowhere”: Justice Kennedy’s Denial of Embodied Knowledge
Elizabeth C. Britt
13. Women in Justice Kennedy’s Jurisprudence
Kathryn Stanchi
14. Justice Kennedy’s Anticlassification Doctrine: Not Judging Well
Rebecca E. Zietlow
15. Whose Freedom? Justice Kennedy’s Sovereignty, Autonomy, and Liberty Discourses in the Immigration Cases
Leticia M. Saucedo
Part 6. Assessment
16. Rhetorical Vision and Judgment: Did Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Judge Well?
David A. Frank
List of Contributors
Index of Cases
Index of Names and Subjects
