The Rhetoric of Judging Well

David A. Frank is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Oregon. He is the coauthor of numerous books, including most recently Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film. Francis J. Mootz III is Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific. He is the author of Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric and Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory.

Acknowledgements



Introduction



Part 1. Judgment in Classical Rhetoric

1. Justice Kennedy and the Interpretation of Legal Texts: The Classical Background

Michael Gagarin

2. Sex and Moral Pollution in the Rhetoric of Justice Kennedy

Eugene Garver



Part 2. Judgment in Stasis Theory

3. Justice Kennedy’s Definitional Construction of Gay Rights in Lawrence and Obergefell: Legal Rhetorical Analysis with the Interpretive Stases

Martin Camper

4. Justice Kennedy, Natural Liberty, and Classical Stasis Theory: Advancing Free Speech with Rhetorical Knowledge and Interpretive Argumentation

Susan E. Provenzano

5. Romer v. Evans: Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia, and the Rhetoric of Judging Well

Sean Patrick O’Rourke



Part 3. Judgment in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

6. Constructing a Free Agent: “Good Judgment” in Justice Kennedy’s Lawrence v. Texas Opinion

Clarke Rountree

7. Justice Kennedy and Natural Law Argumentation

Francis J. Mootz III

8. Justice Kennedy, Federalism, and the Nonproduction of Rhetorical Knowledge

Darien Shanske



Part 4. Judgment and Justice Kennedy’s Ethos

9. Justice Kennedy’s Free Speech Optimism

Ashutosh Bhagwat

10. Strongmen and Neurotics: Visible Struggle and the Construction of Judicial Ethos

James A. Gardner

11. The Anticlassification Topic and Equal-Liberty Template

Leslie Gielow Jacobs



Part 5. Justice Kennedy’s Misjudgments: Women, Race, and Immigrants

12. Performing a “View from Nowhere”: Justice Kennedy’s Denial of Embodied Knowledge

Elizabeth C. Britt

13. Women in Justice Kennedy’s Jurisprudence

Kathryn Stanchi

14. Justice Kennedy’s Anticlassification Doctrine: Not Judging Well

Rebecca E. Zietlow

15. Whose Freedom? Justice Kennedy’s Sovereignty, Autonomy, and Liberty Discourses in the Immigration Cases

Leticia M. Saucedo



Part 6. Assessment

16. Rhetorical Vision and Judgment: Did Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Judge Well?

David A. Frank



List of Contributors

Index of Cases

Index of Names and Subjects