Rhetoric of Judging Well

David A. Frank is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Oregon. He is the coauthor of numerous books, including most recently Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film.Francis J. Mootz III is Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific. He is the author of Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric and Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory.

“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

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1. Judgment in Classical Rhetoric1. Justice Kennedy and the Interpretation of Legal Texts: The Classical BackgroundMichael Gagarin2. Sex and Moral Pollution in the Rhetoric of Justice KennedyEugene GarverPart 2. Judgment in Stasis Theory3. Justice Kennedy’s Definitional Construction of Gay Rights in Lawrence and Obergefell: Legal Rhetorical Analysis with the Interpretive StasesMartin Camper4. Justice Kennedy, Natural Liberty, and Classical Stasis Theory: Advancing Free Speech with Rhetorical Knowledge and Interpretive ArgumentationSusan E. Provenzano5. Romer v. Evans: Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia, and the Rhetoric of Judging WellSean Patrick O’RourkePart 3. Judgment in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory6. Constructing a Free Agent: “Good Judgment” in Justice Kennedy’s Lawrence v. Texas OpinionClarke Rountree7. Justice Kennedy and Natural Law ArgumentationFrancis J. Mootz III8. Justice Kennedy, Federalism, and the Nonproduction of Rhetorical KnowledgeDarien ShanskePart 4. Judgment and Justice Kennedy’s Ethos9. Justice Kennedy’s Free Speech OptimismAshutosh Bhagwat10. Strongmen and Neurotics: Visible Struggle and the Construction of Judicial EthosJames A. Gardner11. The Anticlassification Topic and Equal-Liberty TemplateLeslie Gielow JacobsPart 5. Justice Kennedy’s Misjudgments: Women, Race, and Immigrants12. Performing a “View from Nowhere”: Justice Kennedy’s Denial of Embodied KnowledgeElizabeth C. Britt13. Women in Justice Kennedy’s JurisprudenceKathryn Stanchi14. Justice Kennedy’s Anticlassification Doctrine: Not Judging WellRebecca E. Zietlow15. Whose Freedom? Justice Kennedy’s Sovereignty, Autonomy, and Liberty Discourses in the Immigration CasesLeticia M. SaucedoPart 6. Assessment16. Rhetorical Vision and Judgment: Did Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Judge Well?David A. FrankList of ContributorsIndex of CasesIndex of Names and Subjects