Culver on The Rhetorical Profile @sjquinney

Leslie Culver, University of Utah College of Law, has published The Rhetorical Profile. Here is the abstract.

This essay is a pedagogical companion piece to my article (Un)Wicked Analytical Frameworks and the Cry for Identity. The Rhetorical Profile is a contemporary method for teaching legal analysis that pushes against IRAC’s rigidity and dominance. First, it teaches students to view and understand legal writing as genres (e.g., judicial opinions or motions) and conventions (e.g., governing rules, analogical and deductive reasoning). Second, it develops conscious decision-making to provide depth and effective legal analysis. Its hallmark feature is to situate and give space to the existing questions students should consider at each stage of legal analysis. The result is conscious and confident legal analysis.

The full text is not available from SSRN.