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Profiles		Selected Publications
	Steven J. Mailloux Chancellor’s Professor of Rhetoric University of California – Irvine Profile	Introduction and Rhetorical Hermeneutics from Interpreting Law and Literature Theory: On the Track of Phronesis from Disciplinary Identities
	Kate O’Neill Associate Professor of Law University of Washington School of Law Profile	Rhetoric Counts: What We Should Teach When We Teach Posner
	Francis J. Mootz III William S. Boyd Professor of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas Profile	Perelman’s Theory of Argumentation and Natural Law Argument, Political Friendship and Rhetorical Knowledge: A Review of Garver’s “For the Sake of Argument” Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Theory
	Ruth Anne Robbins Clinical Professor of Law Rutgers School of Law – Camden Profile	Fiction 101 Painting with Print Telling the Client’s Story
	Kirsten K. Davis Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing Stetson University College of Law Profile	Building Credibility in the Margins The Rhetoric of Accommodation
	Jack L. Sammons Griffin B. Bell Professor of Law Mercer University School of Law Profile	The Radical Ethics of Legal Rhetoricians A Rhetorician’s View of Religious Speech In Civic Argument
	Linda Edwards Visiting Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2008-09) Macon Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law Profiles: UNLV \| Mercer	Scholarship by Legal Writing Professors
	Michael R. Smith Winston S. Howard Distinguished Professor of Law University of Wyoming College of Law Profile	Levels of Metaphor in Persuasive Legal Writing Rhetoric Theory and Legal Writing Exploring the Substance of Legal Writing
	Linda L. Berger Professor of Law Mercer University School of Law Profile	How Embedded Knowledge Structures Affect Judicial Decision Making: An Analysis of Metaphor, Narrative, and Imagination in Child Custody Disputes Of Metaphor, Metonymy, and Corporate Money: Rhetorical Choices in Supreme Court Decisions on Campaign Finance Regulation What is the Sound of a Corporation Speaking? How the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor Can Help Lawyers Shape the Law
	David T. Richie Associate Professor of Law Mercer University School of Law Profile	The Centrality of Metaphor in Legal Analysis and Communication: An Introduction Metaphors of Exclusion in Legal Education A Comparative Study of Writing Skills

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