Download This PaperLaw as a Liberal Art
Rhetoric Society of America Bi-Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, May 29, 2016
10 Pages Posted: 31 May 2016
Date Written: May 29, 2016
Abstract
Law is a liberal art. Today, this lesson is forgotten by legal educators, legal practitioners, and citizens. This amnesia is not just a problem of proper academic categorization; it has profound effects on the full realization of the rule of law in contemporary constitutional democracies. The essence of law is captured by the ancient Trivium: grammar, logic (really, dialectic) and rhetoric.
Keywords: Law, Liberal Arts, Trivium, Rhetoric, Giambattista Vico, Alessandro Guiliani, Chaim Perelman, Karl Llewellyn, Aristotle, Sophism
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Mootz, Francis Joseph, Law as a Liberal Art (May 29, 2016). Rhetoric Society of America Bi-Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, May 29, 2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2786331
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