Introduction to Classical Legal Rhetoric: A Lost Heritage
Michael Frost, Southwestern University School of Law
 2000 Michael Frost
Primary Texts
ARISTOTLE, THE RHETORIC OF ARISTOTLE (Lane Cooper trans., 1932)
ANONYMOUS, RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM (H. Caplan trans. 1954)
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, DE ORATORE (E.W. Sutton trans., 1942); DE PARTITIONE
ORATORIA (H. Rackham trans. 1921); TOPICA (H. Hubbell trans. 1949). DE
INVENTIONE (H.M. Hubbel trans. 1949)
MARIUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN, INSTITUTIO ORATORIA (H.E. Butler trans., 1954)
Treatises
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JAMES A. BERLIN, WRITING INSTRUCTION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN
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HAIG BOSMAJIAN, METAPHOR AND REASON IN JUDICIAL OPINIONS (1992)
K. BURKE, COUNTERSTATEMENT (1953)
GEORGE CAMPBELL, THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC (Lloyd F. Bitzer ed. 1963)
JOHN ANTHONY COOK, LAW AND LIFE OF ROME (1967).
E. CORBETT, CLASSICAL RHETORIC FOR THE MODERN STUDENT (2d ed. 1971)
R. ENOS, THE LITERATE MODE OF CICERO'S LEGAL RHETORIC (1988)
BRUCE W. FRIER, THE RISE OF THE ROMAN JURISTS: STUDIES IN CICERO'S PRO
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W. HORNER, RHETORIC IN THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (1988).
H.F. JOLOWICZ & BARRY NICHOLAS, HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY
OF ROMAN LAW (1972)
GEORGE A. KENNEDY, CLASSICAL RHETORIC AND ITS CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR
TRADITION FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES (1980); THE ART OF RHETORIC IN
THE ROMAN WORLD (1972)
LANDMARK ESSAYS ON RHETORICAL INVENTION IN WRITING (Richard Young and
Yameng Liu ed. 1994)
THOMAS MAUET, FUNDAMENTALS OF TRIAL TECHNIQUES (3rd ed. 1992)
D. MELINKOFF, THE LANGUAGE OF THE LAW (1963)
M. MCCALL, ANCIENT RHETORICAL THEORIES OF SIMILE AND COMPARISON
(1969).
RICHARD MCKEON, RHETORIC: ESSAYS IN INVENTION AND DISCOVERY
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(Mark
CHAIM PERELMAN, THE IDEA OF JUSTICE AND THE PROBLEM OF ARGUMENT
(John Petrie trans. 1963)
CHAIM PERELMAN & L. OLBRECHTS-TYTECA, THE NEW RHETORIC: A TREATISE
ON ARGUMENT (John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver trans. 1969)
RICHARD A. POSNER, LAW AND LITERATURE: A MISUNDERSTOOD RELATION
DAVID R. RUSSELL, WRITING IN THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES (1991)
BRIAN VICKERS, IN DEFENCE OF RHETORIC (1988).
KATHLEEN E. WELCH, THE CONTEMPORARY RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL
RHETORIC: APPROPRIATIONS OF ANCIENT DISCOURSE (1990).
JAMES B. WHITE, THE LEGAL IMAGINATION:STUDIES IN THE NATURE OF LEGAL
THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION (1973)
W. ROSS WINTEROWD, A TEACHER'S INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITION IN THE
RHETORICAL TRADITION (1994).
Essays
Anthony G. Amsterdam and Randy Hertz, An Analysis of Closing Arguments to a Jury, 37
N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 55 (1992)
Haig Bosmajian, The Judiciary's Use of Metaphors, Metonymies and Other Tropes to Give First
Amendment Protection to Students and Teachers, 444 Journal of Law & Education 443 (1986)
Kenneth Burke, The Five Master Terms: Their Place in a "Dramatistic" Grammar of Motives in
LANDMARK ESSAYS ON RHETORICAL INVENTION IN WRITING (Richard Young and
Yameng Liu ed. 1994)
Robert Connors, Lisa Ede, & Andrea Lunsford, The Revival of Rhetoric in America in ESSAYS
IN CLASSICAL RHETORIC AND MODERN DISCOURSE 8 (Robert Connors, Lisa Ede, &
Andrea Lunsford, eds. 1984)
Michael Frost, Brief Rhetoric--A Note on Classical and Modern Theories of Forensic Discourse,
38 KAN. L.R. 411 (1990); Greco-Roman Legal Analysis: The Topics of Invention, 66 ST.
JOHN'S L.R. 107 (1992); Ethos, Pathos & Legal Audience, 99 DICKINSON L.R. 85 (1994);
Greco-Roman Analysis of Metaphoric Reasoning, 2 LEGAL WRITING: THE JOURNAL OF
THE LEGAL WRITING INSTITUTE 113 (1996), Introduction to Classical Legal Rhetoric: A
Lost Heritage 8 S. CAL. INTERDISCIPLINARY L.J. 613 (1999)
Graves, Symmetrical Form and the Rhetoric of the Sentence, in ESSAYS ON CLASSICAL
RHETORIC AND MODERN DISCOURSE 171 (1984).
S. Michael Halloran and Merrill D. Whitburn, Ciceronian Rhetoric and the Rise of Science: The
Plain Style Reconsidered, in THE RHETORICAL TRADITION AND MODERN WRITING
61 (James J. Murphy ed. 1982).
Robert F. Hanley, Brush Up Your Aristotle, 12 LITIG. 39, No. 2 (Winter, 1986)
Burr Henly, "Penumbra": The Roots of a Legal Metaphor, 15 Hastings Constitutional Law
Quarterly 81, 83 (1987)
Nan Johnson, Three Nineteenth-Century Rhetoricians: The Humanist
Alternative to Rhetoric as Skills Management in THE RHETORICAL TRADITION AND
MODERN WRITING 106 (James J. Murphy ed. 1982)
Karl Keating, Winning with Aristotle: The Four Kinds of Arguments 52 California State Bar
Journal No. 4, 308 (July/August, 1977)
Kinneavy, Translating Theory into Practice in Teaching Composition: A Historical View and a
Contemporary View in ESSAYS ON CLASSICAL RHETORIC AND MODERN DISCOURSE
70 (1984)
Richard Lloyd-Jones, Using the History of Rhetoric in LEARNING FROM THE HISTORIES
OF RHETORIC: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF BRYAN HORNER 20 (Theresa Enos ed. 1993)
Susan Miller, Classical Practice and Contemporary Basics in THE RHETORICAL
TRADITION AND MODERN WRITING 52-52 (James J. Murphy ed. 1982)
Thomas P. Miller, Reinventing Rhetorical Traditions, in LEARNING FROM THE HISTORIES
OF RHETORIC: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF WINIFRED BRYAN HORNER 27 (Theresa Enos
ed. 1993)
Jean Dietz Moss, The Revival of Practical Reasoning in RHETORIC AND PRAXIS: THE
CONTRIBUTION OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC TO PRACTICAL REASONING 8 (Jean Dietz
Moss ed. 1986)
James J. Murphy, Roman Writing Instruction as Described by Quintilian in A SHORT
HISTORY OF WRITING INSTRUCTION FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO
TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA 20 (James J. Murphy ed. 1990)
Donovan J. Ochs, Cicero's Rhetorical Theory, in A SYNOPTIC HISTORY OF CLASSICAL
RHETORIC 96 (James J. Murphy ed., 1983)
Richard J. Schoeck, Lawyers and Rhetoric in Sixteenth-Century England in RENAISSANCE
ELOQUENCE: STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RENAISSANCE
RHETORIC 274 (James J. Murphy ed. 1983)
Marjorie Curry Woods, The Teaching of Writing in Medieval Europe, A SHORT HISTORY OF
WRITING INSTRUCTION FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY
AMERICA 81 (James J. Murphy ed. 1990)
S.L. Winter, Transcendental Nonsense, Metaphoric Reasoning and the Cognitive Stakes for Law,
137 University of Pennsylvania LR 1105 (1989); Death is the Mother of Metaphor,105 Harvard
Law Review 745 (1992)