Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Advocacy (1)
- Bisexual (1)
- Civil Rights (1)
- Clinical (1)
- Doctrinal (1)
-
- Equal protection (1)
- Exploratory writing (1)
- Gay (1)
- Homosexuality (1)
- LGBT (1)
- Legal Pedagogy and Scholarship (1)
- Legal information (1)
- Legal theory (1)
- Legal writing (1)
- Lesbian (1)
- Litigation (1)
- Memory (1)
- Narrative (1)
- Neuroscience (1)
- Pathology (1)
- Pedagogy (1)
- Persuasive (1)
- Practice (1)
- Reflective writing (1)
- Sameness (1)
- Scientific inquiry (1)
- Scientific proof (1)
- Sexual minorities (1)
- Stories (1)
- Storytelling (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Law
Legal Storytelling: The Theory And The Practice - Reflective Writing Across The Curriculum, Nancy Levit
Legal Storytelling: The Theory And The Practice - Reflective Writing Across The Curriculum, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
This article concentrates on the theory of narrative or storytelling and addresses the reasons it is vital to encourage in law schools in non-clinical or primarily doctrinal courses. Section I traces the advent of storytelling in legal theory and practice: while lawyers have long recognized that part of their job is to tell their clients' stories, the legal academy was, for many years, resistant to narrative methodologies. Section II examines the current applications of Writing Across the Curriculum in law schools. Most exploratory writing tasks in law school come in clinical courses, although a few adventurous professors are adding reflective …
Theorizing And Litigating The Rights Of Sexual Minorities, Nancy Levit
Theorizing And Litigating The Rights Of Sexual Minorities, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
One of the best measures of a society is how it treats its vulnerable groups. A central idea in Professor Martha Nussbaum's writings is that all humans "are of equal dignity and worth, no matter where they are situated in society." The strategic challenge in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) rights litigation is how to get courts to see sexual minorities as people worthy of equal dignity and respect. This article focuses on the roles of a positive emotion - love - and a procedural method of proof - science - in the shaping of laws defining the rights …