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STUDYING LAW
students "experience a linguistic rupture, a shift in how they understand and use
language, once they begin law school. impacts not just how well they
comprehend how to utilize language, but their perceptions of the law's operation
and application to them.
Their opinions are informed by the frequent legal discussions that reflect
Socrates' and Callicles' viewpoints that the law is nothing but rules. or total
power. In opposition to these interpretations of the legal discussion, I aim to
provide law students with a rhetorical space in this article. stand in the way of
power and reason. This idea has two justifications: first, introducing Students'
exposure to rhetoric allows them to visualize their attorneys' positive, efficient,
and creative roles while based on language, compelling argument, and the law.
Next, by using rhetoric to discuss the "effects of texts," law professors to better
comprehend the law school classroom while also integrating their own work and
teaching as a community of rhetoric. Rhetoric for law students provides a strong
counter to the constrained view of the life of lawyers offered by popular
depictions of formalism or realism.
Advocates of legalism or formalism are typically stated to think that the real
version of the facts can be "found," the meaning of legal norms may be
established, and reasoning may be used to get certain outcomes. In contrast to
this version of formalism, political realists assert that despite the meaning being
frequently ambiguous and When facts are unclear, judges must nonetheless
make decisions. To do Therefore, realists assert, judges will inevitably consult
their own, political convictions or ideologies. In contrast to these representations,
rhetoric examines how the law explores the process of producing meaning, one
that the Law is "constituted" by those who are situated in specific historical and
cultural communities to discuss, debate, and write about determining legal
issues. considers rhetoric as a skill, not a tool, even an art. In this context and for
the time being, ambiguous questions are resolved not as an art of persuasion but
rather as an engaged process of persuasion and debate. By treating rhetoric this
way, it is prevented from being dismissed as a collection of literary tricks.
linguistic gimmicks that skip over and contribute only a bit to legal
argumentation’s real substance. As opposed to that, it emphasizes the rhetorical
process as perception, comprehension, and expression are all fundamental.
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students "experience a linguistic
rupture, a shift in how they understand
and use language, once they begin law
school. impacts not just how well they Pathos, Ethos
comprehend how to utilize language,
but their perceptions of the law's
operation and application to them.