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Reimagining Advocacy

Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic
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Investigates how students in a clinical legal education program learned to advocate effectively and ethically with clients abused by intimate partners. Demonstrates the importance of valuing clients as experts in their own lives and as equal partners in decision making.


Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bodies, Perspectives, Advocacies

1. Attitudes toward Advocacy

2. At the Law School: Learning to Recognize the Expertise of Others

3. At the Hospital: Learning to Defer to Others

4. At the Courthouse: Learning to Support the Rhetorical Work of Others

Conclusion: Lessons

Appendix A: Research Methods

Appendix B: Interview Participants

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Overall, Elizabeth C. Britt’s Reimagining Advocacy is an exceptionally important text to contemporary rhetorical studies.”

—Madeline Denison, Argumentation and Advocacy

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