Law is Rhetoric

Julie A. OseidUniversity of St. Thomas School of LawMinneapolis, MNjaoseid@stthomas.edu

My knowledge about rhetoric

Abraham Lincoln - brevity

Kristen Tiscione

Thomas Jefferson - metaphor

Aristotle

Michael Smith and Linda Berger

James Madison - rigor

Ulysses Grant - clarity

Kirsten Davis

Teddy Roosevelt - zeal

Judges

The Four James Boyd White

Rhetoric and Teaching

I (and maybe you, too?) was a rhetoric scholar and teacher and didn’t really realize it . . .