For the Love of Parentheticals: The Story of Parenthetical Usage in Synthesis, Rhetoric, Economics, and Narrative Reasoning
23 Pages Posted: 28 Aug 2012 Last revised: 8 Aug 2013
Date Written: August 27, 2012
Abstract
'Parentheticals – A Love Story' joins the critical conversation on the practical tools needed for legal discourse. The Article examines the rhetorical advantages of the use of parentheticals for explanation of the effects of a synthesis of authorities. I examine parentheticals under the lens of citation usage, synthesis theory, contemporary rhetoric, law and economics, and narrative reasoning theory. This Article follows my work this year and in 2011 on the rhetoric of rule synthesis and explanatory synthesis and the rhetoric of law and economics:
Michael D. Murray, What is Transformative? An Explanatory Synthesis of the Convergence of Transformation and Predominant Purpose in Copyright Fair Use Law, 11 Chic.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 260 (2012)
Michael D. Murray, After the Great Recession: Law and Economics’ Topics of Invention and Arrangement and Tropes of Style, 58 Loy. L. Rev. 897 (Winter 2012), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2012963 Michael D. Murray, The Great Recession and the Rhetorical Canons of Law and Economics, 58 Loy. L. Rev. 615 (Fall 2012), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2012955
Michael D. Murray, Explanatory Synthesis and Rule Synthesis: A Comparative Civil Law and Common Law Analysis, 83-84 Bahcesehir Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakultesi--Kazxanci Hukuk Dergisi 139 (2011)
Michael D. Murray, Rule Synthesis and Explanatory Synthesis: A Socratic Dialogue Between IREAC and TREAT, 8 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 217 (2011)
Keywords: parentheticals, synthesis theory, contemporary rhetoric, economics, narrative reasoning theory, rule synthesis, explanatory synthesis, rhetoric, law and economics
JEL Classification: K1, K00, K10, K19
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