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Workshop 1
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
(AALS, San Diego)
| Morning Sessions: Introduction to Contemporary Rhetorical Theory |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Welcome
Dean Daisy Hurst Floyd |
| 9:10 |
Introduction
Prof. Linda Berger |
| 9:15 |
Rhetorical Hermeneutics & the Rhetorical Lens
Steven J. Mailloux
University of California – Irvine
Chancellor’s Professor of Rhetoric |
| 10:45 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Implications for Law & Law Teachers
Francis J. Mootz III
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
William S. Boyd Professor of Law |
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| Noon |
Lunch on the Terrace |
| Afternoon Sessions: Applying the Rhetorical Perspective to Scholarship, Teaching, Professional
Practice, & Disciplinary Development |
| 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. |
Session1
Prof. David Ritchie, Moderator
Prof. Kirsten Davis (Stetson)
Prof. Linda Edwards (Mercer/UNLV)
Prof. Kate O’Neill (Washington)
& workshop participants |
| 2:45 |
Break |
| 3:00 – 4:15 |
Session 2
Prof. Linda Berger, Moderator
Prof. Ruth Anne Robbins (Rutgers-Camden)
Prof. Jack Sammons (Mercer)
Prof. Michael Smith (Wyoming)
& workshop participants |
| 4:15 |
Closing Discussion & Reception |
| 5:45 |
Small groups gather for “dinner on your own” at selected Gaslamp
restaurants |
Mercer University School of Law gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Legal Writing Institute in
making this program possible.
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