Rhetoric Theory and Legal Writing: An Annotated Bibliography

Abstract:     
This bibliography supplements the articles in this volume of the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (J. ALWD) by setting out a list of other works that have been written in the growing area of legal writing scholarship that relates classical and contemporary rhetoric theory to the practice of professional legal writing. The scope of this bibliography is limited in two ways. First, the works listed here focus primarily on how rhetoric theory applies to the discipline of legal writing. While rhetoric is a discipline unto itself, only a few works on general rhetoric theory have been listed here. The first limitation implies the second. This bibliography lists works that focus on rhetoric theory and legal writing; it does not list more generally works that focus on rhetoric theory and "the law." The works listed are broken into two main groups which correspond with the two main schools of rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Rhetoric.

Keywords: rhetoric, rhetoric theory, classical rhetoric, contemporary rhetoric, bibliography, legal writing, professional legal writing, discipline

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