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Workshop 1
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
(AALS, San Diego)

Morning Sessions: Introduction to Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:00 Welcome
Dean Daisy Hurst Floyd
9:10 Introduction
Prof. Linda Berger
9:15 Rhetorical Hermeneutics & the Rhetorical Lens
Steven J. Mailloux
University of California – Irvine
Chancellor’s Professor of Rhetoric
10:45 Break
11:00 Implications for Law & Law Teachers
Francis J. Mootz III
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
William S. Boyd Professor of Law
 
Noon Lunch on the Terrace
Afternoon Sessions: Applying the Rhetorical Perspective to Scholarship, Teaching, Professional Practice, & Disciplinary Development
1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Session1
Prof. David Ritchie, Moderator
Prof. Kirsten Davis (Stetson)
Prof. Linda Edwards (Mercer/UNLV)
Prof. Kate O’Neill (Washington)
& workshop participants
2:45 Break
3:00 – 4:15 Session 2
Prof. Linda Berger, Moderator
Prof. Ruth Anne Robbins (Rutgers-Camden)
Prof. Jack Sammons (Mercer)
Prof. Michael Smith (Wyoming)
& workshop participants
4:15 Closing Discussion & Reception
5:45 Small groups gather for “dinner on your own” at selected Gaslamp restaurants

Mercer University School of Law gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Legal Writing Institute in making this program possible.

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