Harold Anthony Lloyd

Wake Forest University School of Law

Professor of Law

Winston-Salem, NC

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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“  Professor Harold Anthony Lloyd (Hal Lloyd) embraces the hermeneutic pragmatism set forth in his article titled "Making Good Sense: Pragmatism’s Mastery of Meaning, Truth, and Workable Rule of Law." Such hermeneutic pragmatism informs and unifies multiple areas of interest he explores including (without limitation): the inseparability of theory and practice; the need for moral as well as other workability in acceptable theory and practice; semiotics (including semantics, hermeneutics, and pragmatics); conceptual metaphor; the cognitive nature of emotion; the role of virtue in legal and other analysis; the interrelation of law and the humanities (including classical rhetoric and parallels between lawyers and poets); and legal education reform. Prof. Lloyd is also a poet and translator whose translations include Palladas, Racine, and Molière.  ”

Scholarly Papers (28)

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Theory Without Practice Is Empty; Practice Without Theory Is Blind: The Inherent Inseparability of Doctrine and Skills

Contained in Linda H. Edwards, The Doctrine Skills Divide: Legal Education’s Self-Inflicted Wound 77-90 (2017)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Dec 2017
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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legal education, legal writing, semantics, theory, practice, experience, Charles Sanders Peirce, embodied meaning, cognitive psychology, Cartesian dualism, affordance knowledge, metaphor, George Lakoff, category, humanities, Langdell, pragmatism, semiotics, philosophy

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How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education

55 University of Richmond Law Review 861 (2021)
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 16 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2021
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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semiotics, intentionality, signifier, sense, reference, meaning, index, icon, symbol, rhetoric, speech act, interpretation, construction, speaker meaning, reader meaning, originalism, first amendment, intent, contracts, legislation, Peirce, Shakespeare, directive, commissive, verdictive

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Cognitive Emotion and the Law

41 Law & Psychology Review 53 (2016-2017)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 02 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2017
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Emotion, Cognitive Emotion, Reason, Logos, Pathos, Legal Analysis, Legal Reasoning, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Persuasion, Rhetoric, Expression, First Amendment, Free Speech, Common Law Murder, Mental Health, NAACP v. McCrory, Anger, Contempt, Disgust, Hate, Malice

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Exercising Common Sense, Exorcising Langdell: The Inseparability of Legal Theory, Practice and the Humanities

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 5, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 2309545
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2015
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Best Practices, Langdell, Case Method, Affordance Knowledge, Practical Skills, Embodied Meaning, Liberal Arts, Humanities, Metaphor, Meaning, Categories, Rhetoric, Legal Writing, Legal Analysis, Clinical Courses, Law School Curriculum, Legal Education, Socratic Method, Semantics, Simulation

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Law as Trope: Framing and Evaluating Conceptual Metaphors

37 Pace L. Rev. 89 (2016)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2017
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Metaphor, Trope, Simile, Category, Narrative, Lakoff, Precedent, Logic, Kenning, Utility, Pragmatism, Precedent, Predictability, Simplicity, Coherence, Rhetoric, Natural Law, Logic, Principle of Noncontradiction

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Law's 'Way of Words': Pragmatics and Textualist Error

49 Creighton Law Review 221 (March 2016)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 09 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2016
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Pragmatics, Semiotics, Interpretation, Textualism, Plain Meaning, King v. Burwell, Affordable Care Act, Text, Meaning, Speaker Meaning, Implicature

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Let's Skill All the Lawyers: Shakespearean Lessons in Law and Rhetoric

6 Acta Iuridica Olomucensia 9 (2010)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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jurisprudence, Shakespeare, semiotics, semantics, natural law, positivism, rhetoric, philosophy of law, legal theory, legal philosophy

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'Original' Means Old, 'Original' Means New: An 'Original' Look at What 'Originalists' Do

67 National Lawyers Guild Review 135 (2010)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2012
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Originalism, Original Intent, Original Meaning, Interpretation, Constitutional Interpretation, Semantics, Semiotics, Judicical Activism, Meaning, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Preamble, Lawrence v. Texas, Gay Rights

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Why Legal Writing is 'Doctrinal' and More Importantly Profound

Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 19, 2018 (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2018
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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legal writing, doctrine, doctrinal, semantics, modern cognitive psychology, embodied meaning, rhetoric, legal education, Langdell, Wittgenstein, IRAC, CREAC, RIRAC, Lakoff, disparate treatment

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Publish and Perish? Handling the Unreasonable Publication Agreement

13 Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law 127 (2013)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 05 May 2013
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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publication agreement, copyright, license, indemnity, intellectual property, publication, publish, author, author's rights

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Raising the Bar, Razing Langdell

51 Wake Forest Law Review 231 (2016)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 18 May 2016
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Langdell, Legal Education Reform, Case Method, Humanities, Narrative, Rhetoric, Framing, Embodied Meaning, Cartesian Dualism, Peirce, Theory, Practice, Experience

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Plain Language Statutes: Plain Good Sense or Plain Nonsense?

Law Library Journal, Vol. 78, p. 683, 1985
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 28 Sep 2010
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Plain Language, Legalese, Readability, Interpretation

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Plane Meaning and Thought: Real-World Semantics and Fictions of Originalism

24 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 657 (2015)
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 13 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2015
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Semantics, Meaning, Originalism, Original Meaning, Formalism, Formalist, Legal Analysis, Legal Writing, Interpretation, IRAC, CREAC, Frame, Framing, Metaphor, Narrative, Pragmatism, Peirce, William James, Semiotics

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Balancing Freedom and Restraint: The Role of Virtue in Legal Analysis

Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2023
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
Downloads 165 (366,592)

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legal analysis, virtue, skill, formalism, character, phronesis, concept, category, hermeneutic pragmatism, Peirce, Rorty, Putnam, deduction, induction, semiotics, legal education, rhetoric

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Gorsuch and Originalism: Some Critiques from Logic, Scripture, and Art

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jan 2020
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
Downloads 153 (390,888)

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Originalism, Neil Gorsuch, Text, Textualism, Scalia, Interpretation, Pragmatics, Speaker Meaning, Art, Painting, Bruegel, Auden, Ekphrasis, Icarus, Bible, Ten Commandments, Herod, Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln

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Recasting Canons of Interpretation and Construction into “Canonical” Queries: Initial Canonical Queries of Presented or Transmitted Text

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 57, 2022
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 31 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2023
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Canons of Construction, Interpretation, Legislative Intent, Originalism, Textualism, Plain Meaning, Ambiguity, Vagueness, Indeterminacy, Ordinary Meaning, Term of Art, Noscitur a Sociis, Ejusdem Generis, Expressio Unius, Last Antecedent, Absurdity, Anaphora

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Crushing Animals and Crashing Funerals: The Semiotics of Free Expression

First Amendment Law Review, 2013, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 2140937
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 06 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2014
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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interpretation, construction, meaning, plain meaning, originalism, original intent, canon, semiotics, signs, signals, symbol, icon, index, signifier, signified, ordinary meaning, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, animal cruelty, judicical choice, first amendment, statutes

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Recasting Canons of Interpretation and Construction into "Canonical" Queries: Further Canonical Queries of Presented or Transmitted Text

Wake Forest Law Review, 4369755, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper 4369755
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2024
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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interpretation,construction, canon of construction, ejusdem generis, noscitur a sociis, expressio unius, anaphora, surplusage, absurdity, scrivener's error, pari materia, ellipsis, severability, context, conjunction, disjunction, meaning, relevance, whole text, text, semiotics

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Narrative in Law and Life: Some Frequently Asked Questions

The Second Draft, Fall 2015
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 24 May 2015 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2015
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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narrative, storytelling, archetypes, concept, metaphor, framing, storylines, character types, character traits, humanities, liberal arts

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Good Legal Thought: What Wordsworth Can Teach Langdell About Forms, Frames, Choices, and Aims

41 Vermont Law Review 1 (2016)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2016
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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RIRAC, IRAC, CREAC, Reference, Issue, Analysis, Rule, Application, Conclusion, Frame, Framing, Metaphor, Concept, Category, Legal Thought, Legal Analysis, Rhetoric, Langdell, Wordsworth, Form, Formalism, Sonnet, Text

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Making Good Sense: Pragmatism’s Mastery of Meaning, Truth, and Workable Rule of Law

Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2019
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Pragmatism, Hermeneutic, Truth, Rule of Law, William James, C.S. Peirce, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, Gadamer, Habermas, Derrida, Lon Fuller, H.L.A. Hart, Post-truth, Postmodernism, Trump, Rhetoric, Meaning, Interpretation, Metaphor, Category, Lifeworld, Formalism, Framing, Deconstruction

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Speaker Meaning and the Interpretation and Construction of Executive Orders

8 Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy 319 (2018), Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 16 May 2018
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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executive orders, speaker meaning, interpretation, construction, semiotics, pragmatics, originalism, speech acts, context, facial legitimacy, Constitutionality, First Amendment,Trump v. Int’l Refugee Assistance Project, Scalia, immigration, semantics, original meaning, travel ban, Trump, textualism

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Justice Scalia and Queen Anne

The Huffington Post July 9, 2015
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 20 Jul 2015
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
Downloads 108 (512,111)

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originalism, original meaning, Scalia, interpretation, meaning

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Let's Skill All the Lawyers: Shakespearean Lessons on the Nature of Law

11 Vera Lex 33 (2010)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Feb 2013
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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jurisprudence, natural law, positivism, Shakespeare

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Recasting Canons of Construction Into “Canonical” Queries: Canons and Queries Of Meaning, Spirit, Letter, and Text

Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper 4981537
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 Oct 2024
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Langdell and the Eclipse of Character

University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Forthcoming, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 4536753
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Aug 2023
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Langdell, law school reform, legal education reform, virtue, imagination, empathy, balance, integrity, hazing, experience, translation, formalism, character, concept, category, metaphor

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Law and the Cognitive Nature of Emotion: A Brief Introduction

Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Jun 2019
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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emotion, law, anger, frustration, guilt, remorse, regret, contract damages, penalty, Langdell, intentionality, neuroscience, mood, sentiment, trait

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A Right But Wrong Place: Righting and Rewriting Citizens United

56 South Dakota Law Review 219 (2011)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2012
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Citizens United, Free Speech, First Amendment, Media Corporations, PACs, Political Action Committees, Campaign Finance, Elections, Constitutional Law

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 43
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Poets and Lawyers: Birds of a Feather

Huffington Post, December 2015
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Jan 2016
Harold Anthony Lloyd
Wake Forest University School of Law
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Law and Poetry, Wallace Stevens, Shakespeare, Sonnet, IRAC, Form, Narrative, Ballade, Villanelle, Acrostic, Sestina, Translation