Critical and Comparative Rhetoric - by Elizabeth Berenguer & Lucy Jewel & Teri A McMurtry-Chubb (Hardcover)

About the Book

Through the lenses of comparative and critical rhetoric, this book theorizes how alternative approaches to communication can transform legal meanings and legal outcomes, infusing them with more inclusive participation, equity and justice. Viewing legal language through a radical lens, the book sets aside longstanding norms that derive from White and Eurocentric approaches in order to resituate legal methods as products of new rhetorical models that come from diasporic and non-Western cultures.

Book Synopsis

Through the lenses of comparative and critical rhetoric, this book theorizes how alternative approaches to communication can transform legal meanings and legal outcomes, infusing them with more inclusive participation, equity and justice.

Viewing legal language through a radical lens, the book sets aside longstanding norms that derive from White and Euro-centric approaches in order to re-situate legal methods as products of new rhetorical models that come from diasporic and non-Western cultures.

The book urges readers to re-consider how they think about logic and rhetoric and to consider other ways of building knowledge that can heal the law's current structures that often perpetuate and reinforce systems of privilege and power.

Review Quotes

"This book doesn't just teach critical rhetoric theory, it gives its readers the tools to apply it, leaving them excited about what they can do to change the legal system." JoAnne Sweeny, University of Louisville

About the Author

Elizabeth Berenguer is Associate Professor of Law at Stetson Law School.

Lucy Jewel is Professor of Law and Director of Legal Writing at the University of Tennessee College of Law.

Teri McMurtry-Chubb is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) School of Law.