The legal communication papers (that I’ve been able to identify) being presented at RSA 2012: The 15th Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, being held 25-28 May 2012, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, are listed below.
Click here for the conference program.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #rsa12.
The legal communication / legal rhetoric papers being presented at the conference include the following (if you know of other legal communication papers being presented at the conference, please feel free to list them in the comments):
- Jennifer Andrus, University of Utah, and Nathan Atkinson, Georgia State University: Photographs, Witnesses and Bodies: Toward a Visual Rhetoric of Law
- Joseph Bartolotta, University of Minnesota: Indulging John Marshall’s “Sympathies”: Identification, the Cherokee Nation, and the Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia
- Shelby Bell, University of Minnesota: The Presidency as a Tool for Foreign Policy: An Exploration of the Implications of United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp
- Jonathan Benda, Northeastern University: Formosa Betrayed and Its Fate(s): Rhetorical Ecologies and the Reframing of Human Rights Rhetoric
- Frank M. Bryan, University of Vermont: Face-to-face Democratic Deliberation: The Role of Rhetoric in Communal Assemblies
- Peter Odell Campbell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Queer Phronesis in Constitutional Argument
- Alan Chu, University of Arizona: Legislative New Racism and the Rhetoric of Ethnic Studies in Arizona
- Emily Cooney, Arizona State University: Keeping the Targets Out: Representation and Social Justice in the Arizona SB 1070 Debate
- Mark Davis, Texas Tech University: The U.S. Constitution and Human Rights: A Rhetorical Look at How the Constitution Is Used as a Weapon by Political and Corporate Interests to Deny Human Rights Concerns to Non-citizens Across the Globe
- Matthew deTar, Northwestern University: The Limits of Religious Rights Discourse: The EU in Domestic Turkish Politics
- Rasha Diab, University of Texas: Revisiting the Constitution of Medina: A Medieval, Arab-Islamic Articulation of Conciliation and Human Rights
- Adam Ellwanger, University of Houston-Downtown: Our “Big, Messy Tough Democracy”: Healthcare Reform and the Failure of Rhetoric
- Megan Foley, Mississippi State University: Logos and Aristotelian Justice: Dikē from Aporia to Analogy
- Michaela Frischherz, The University of Iowa: Not Gay Enough: Performing Identifications in U.S. Asylum Law
- John Gastil, Penn State University; Katherine Knobloch, University of Washington; Robert Richards, Penn State University: Vicarious Deliberation: How the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review Influences Deliberation in Mass Elections
- Mary Glavin, Carnegie Mellon University: Free Appropriate Public Education: Anxiety of Agency in Special Education Law
- Jeremiah Hickey, St. John’s University: In Defense of “Breathing Space:” The Structure of Political Debate in Snyder v. Phelps
- Van Hillard, Davidson College: Definitional Anxieties over Protecting Marriage: Kategoria as Civic Violence
- Karen S. Hoffman, Marquette University: Listening to the People: the Contribution of Online Comment Forums
- Jaclyn Howell, University of Kansas: When Communism and Jim Crow Collide: Harry Raymond and the Case of Willie McGee
- Kristen Hungerford, University of Memphis: Obama Doesn’t Like To ‘Tell’: A Rhetoric of Ambiguity in President Obama’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Signing Address
- James Jasinski, University of Puget Sound: Reconstituting a Prudential Middle Ground Regarding Racial Classifications: From Bakke to Parents United
- Helen Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Rhetorical Construction of Gender in Marriage Cases
- Emiliano Marello, Universidad de Buenos Aires: The Rhetoric of the Possibility of Lesbian Love: Argumentative Aspects of the Legal Struggle of Lesbian Mothers in Argentina
- Jonathan Maricle, University of South Carolina: Accountable Deliberation: The Public’s Role in Healthcare Reform
- Sara McKinnon, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Dividing Definitions of Gender/Sexuality and the Implications for Lesbian Asylum Seekers in the United States
- Paul Minifee, San Diego State University : Rhetoric of Agitation: Rev. Jermain W. Loguen’s Speech in Defiance of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
- William Morgan, New York University: Commodiousness, Concern, and the Uses of Repetitive Questioning in Human Rights Rhetoric
- Christa B. Teston, University of Idaho: Defining “clinical meaningfulness” in FDA cancer-care hearings
- Belinda Walzer, University of North Carolina-Greensboro: What Are The Alternatives? Human Rights, Subjectivity and the Potential of Narrative
- Maggie Werner, Hobart & William: Heroes v. Haters: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Masquerade of Justice
- Karen Wink, U.S. Coast Guard Academy: Deliberative Discourse Surrounding the Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
For abstracts or full text of papers, please contact the authors.
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