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Submissions from 2023

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In re Marriage Cases, Same-Sex Marriage, and the California Supreme Court as Critical Social Movement Ally, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2022

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Cakes and Communication: A Trans‐Atlantic Conversation Between the U.S. And U.K. Supreme Courts on the Tension Between Anti‐Discrimination Law and the Freedoms of Religion and Speech, Carlo Pedrioli

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Teaching Constitutional Law in the United Kingdom: A U.S. Perspective, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2021

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Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as Critical Social Movement Ally, Carlo Pedrioli

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MANDATED BROADCAST COVERAGE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: A LOOK BACK AT THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IN THE UNITED STATES, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2020

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Regulating Online Hate Speech: A U.S. Perspective, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2019

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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

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Pope Francis, Poverty, and the Third Persona, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2017

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Pope Francis and the Limits of Freedom of Expression, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2016

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Judicial Neutrality Awash with Ideology: Justice Scalia, Sexual Orientation, and Rhetorical Personae, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2015

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New York Times v. Sullivan and the Rhetorics of Race: A Look at the Briefs, Oral Arguments, and Opinions, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2014

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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

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A New Image in the Looking Glass: Faculty Mentoring, Invitational Rhetoric, and the Second-Class Status of Women in U.S. Academia, Carlo Pedrioli

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Constructing Modern-Day U.S. Legal Education with Rhetoric: Langdell, Ames, and the Scholar Model of the Law Professor Persona, Carlo Pedrioli

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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

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Constructing the Other: U.S. Muslims, Anti-Sharia Law, and the Constitutional Consequences of Volatile Intercultural Rhetoric, Carlo Pedrioli

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Professor Kingsfield in Conflict: Rhetorical Constructions of the U.S. Law Professor Persona(e), Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2011

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Respecting Language as Part of Ethnicity: Title VII and Language Discrimination at Work, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2010

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A Fractured Establishment's Responses to Social Movement Agitation: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Negotiation of an Outsider Point of Entry in Walker v. City of Birmingham, Carlo Pedrioli

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The Rhetoric of Catharsis and Change: Law School Autobiography As a Nonfiction Law and Literature Subgenre, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2007

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The Controversy Over the Legacy Highway in Utah: An Opportunity for Invitational Rhetoric, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2005

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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

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The Heightened Standard of Judicial Review in Cases of Governmental Gender-Based Discrimination: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Influence on the U.S. Supreme Court in Craig v. Boren, Carlo Pedrioli

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Under a Critical Race Theory Lens – Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy, Carlo Pedrioli

Submissions from 2004

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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