This is the presentation that Professor Susan Provenzano of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and I are giving on Friday, September 27, 2019, at the UNLV symposium on Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis. Download link: https://www.rhetoricked.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/190927-SEP-BNL-preso.pdf
Many colleagues have been at the forefront of organizing and planning the Nevada Law Journal symposium “Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis,” being held at William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, September 26-28, 2019, (info and free registration link here) particularly the co-chairs of the symposium, Professors Lori… Continue reading Why you should go to conferences like the UNLV Symposium
Updated August 21, 2019, to provide a link to the final course pack. (You should download and refer to the course pack from now on. You should consider discarding previous versions of the course pack to avoid confusing yourself about dates, etc.) The final course pack is now available on the TWEN site for the… Continue reading Welcome to LARW I (fall 2019)
Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis is a symposium of the Nevada Law Journal on September 26 & 27, 2019. Lori Johnson, associate professor of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas, and Susan Provenzano, William Trumbull Professor of Practice at Northwestern Pritzker School of… Continue reading Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis: NLJ Symposium
Updated March 27, 2019 to include application process. If you are a student at Texas A&M University School of Law interested in how lawyers and judges cite and use court opinions in their arguments, you may be right for an opportunity as a research assistant working with me in spring/summer 2019. There are many options… Continue reading Research assistants needed, spring/summer 2019
Here is a quasi-infographic representation of the weekly schedule for my spring 2019 LARW II course. On the left are indications of what we’ll focus on in class sessions, and on the right are explanations of the graded assignments, showing when students are working on them and (roughly) their due dates.
From Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, the Small, Maynard imprint of 1904 (available on Google Books). This is the first poem I’m learning this year, part of a project to learn twelve great poems in 2019. I chose it from among recommendations I received from folks because of the stark contrast between its sensual, joyful… Continue reading January 2019 Poem: “I sing the body electric”
I’m obsessed with language, but so much of my attention to it in my work is on what could be called “technical communication,” “business communication,” or “expository prose.” It can be artful, but it is rarely beautiful. I want to recapture some beautiful language in my life, so my New Year’s resolution is to learn—really… Continue reading Twelve poems to play with in 2019
I’m seeking feedback on a course I’m planning to teach in fall 2019 from lawyers and other law-trained folks, from business people and consumer advocates in the information-technology space, and from experienced law teachers. I’m construing “information technology” broadly to include things like B2B service agreements, social media terms of use, etc. I describe the… Continue reading #teachingTechKs: What belongs in an IT-contract drafting course?
Each fall in my Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing class, I split students into teams, each comprising four or five students, and have them compete to prepare citations that are correct according to the Bluebook. They compete in relay races, two teams at a time, weekly during the semester. In the last couple weeks of… Continue reading The Citation Cup: Fall 2018
