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Submissions from 2023
In re Marriage Cases, Same-Sex Marriage, and the California Supreme Court as Critical Social Movement Ally, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2022
Teaching Constitutional Law in the United Kingdom: A U.S. Perspective, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2021
Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as Critical Social Movement Ally, Carlo Pedrioli
MANDATED BROADCAST COVERAGE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: A LOOK BACK AT THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IN THE UNITED STATES, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2020
Regulating Online Hate Speech: A U.S. Perspective, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2019
Is Incitement on the Internet Easier to Punish than Incitement on Television? A Case Study of the Koran-Burning of Florida Pastor Terry Jones, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2018
Pope Francis, Poverty, and the Third Persona, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2017
Pope Francis and the Limits of Freedom of Expression, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2016
Judicial Neutrality Awash with Ideology: Justice Scalia, Sexual Orientation, and Rhetorical Personae, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2015
New York Times v. Sullivan and the Rhetorics of Race: A Look at the Briefs, Oral Arguments, and Opinions, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2014
Critiquing Modern-Day U.S. Legal Education with Rhetoric: Frank's Plea and the Scholar Model of the Law Professor Persona, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2013
A New Image in the Looking Glass: Faculty Mentoring, Invitational Rhetoric, and the Second-Class Status of Women in U.S. Academia, Carlo Pedrioli
Constructing Modern-Day U.S. Legal Education with Rhetoric: Langdell, Ames, and the Scholar Model of the Law Professor Persona, Carlo Pedrioli
Instrumentalist and Holmesian Voices in the Rhetoric of Reapportionment: The Opinions of Justices Brennan and Frankfurter in Baker v. Carr, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2012
Constructing the Other: U.S. Muslims, Anti-Sharia Law, and the Constitutional Consequences of Volatile Intercultural Rhetoric, Carlo Pedrioli
Professor Kingsfield in Conflict: Rhetorical Constructions of the U.S. Law Professor Persona(e), Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2011
Respecting Language as Part of Ethnicity: Title VII and Language Discrimination at Work, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2010
The Rhetoric of Catharsis and Change: Law School Autobiography As a Nonfiction Law and Literature Subgenre, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2007
The Controversy Over the Legacy Highway in Utah: An Opportunity for Invitational Rhetoric, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2005
Lifting the Pall of Orthodoxy: The Need for Hearing a Multitude of Tongues in and Beyond the Sexual Education Curricula at Public High Schools, Carlo Pedrioli
Under a Critical Race Theory Lens – Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy, Carlo Pedrioli
Submissions from 2004
A Key Influence on the Doctrine of Actual Malice: Justice William Brennan's Judicial Philosophy at Work in Changing the Law of Seditious Libel, Carlo Pedrioli