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Sep 28, 2024
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WSC 025 - (AA) Writing and the LawSemester Hours: 3
This course is designed to introduce students to legal writing and writing about the law in its myriad forms. This course examines the theory, practice, and history of rhetoric in legal argumentation. Students will explore the history of legal arguments through the history of rhetoric, reading Isocrates, Plato, Cicero, and Quintilian to learn how law and rhetoric evolved with democracy. Special attention will be paid to argumentation and writing in genres familiar to Sophistic rhetoric. Students will also learn the structures of contemporary legal writing. Students will further examine how the law is written about for popular audiences and non-experts, considering texts as books, articles from magazines and newspapers, blogs, and other instances of legal writing in popular venues.
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