<div dir="ltr"><div>See the CPF below or (for prettier presentation) visit <a href="https://rhetoricked.com/2018/08/09/cfp-classical-rhetoric-contemporary-law/">https://rhetoricked.com/2018/08/09/cfp-classical-rhetoric-contemporary-law/</a></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-- <br>Thanks!<br>-Brian<br>__________________________<br><b><font color="#0b5394">Brian N. Larson, J.D., Ph.D.</font></b> | Associate Professor <br><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">Texas A&M University School of Law<br></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://works.bepress.com/brian-larson/" target="_blank">Scholarship (Bepress)</a> <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2017167" target="_blank">(SSRN)</a> | Blogging @ <a href="http://www.Rhetoricked.com" target="_blank">www.Rhetoricked.com</a> <br>Personal/research email: <a href="mailto:brian@tendallarson.com" target="_blank">brian@tendallarson.com</a><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Email for TAMU student and official matters: <a href="mailto:blarson@tamu.edu" target="_blank">blarson@tamu.edu</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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<p class="gmail-MsoTitle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:28pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.5pt">Call for proposals<span></span></p>
<h1 style="margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal">Expressing interest in collaborating on scholarship exploring <br>
the intersections of classical rhetoric and contemporary law<span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Preliminary proposals
due September 14, 2018 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">AoE</a>)<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>(CFP version 8/9/18)<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Classical Rhetoric & Contemporary Law, a national group
of scholars in the legal academy broadly interested in rhetorical theory and
particularly in classical rhetorical texts, has been meeting virtually for more
than a year discussing such texts and their intersections with contemporary
legal practices and education. The list of texts the group has discussed so far
appears below. The group has presented portions of its work at 2018 conferences
of the Rhetoric Society of America and of the Legal Writing Institute.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Many (though not all) of CRCL’s members are experienced
legal practitioners and law teachers and scholars specializing in teaching
legal communication in the legal academy; others have training in rhetoric,
communication studies, and philosophy, among other disciplines. Most are not
trained with terminal degrees in rhetoric and none in classics. Many are also eager
to be scholarly collaborators.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CRCL intends this CFP to elicit proposals that identify and
advance scholarly projects to discuss, illustrate, explore, or advocate for the
relationship between classical rhetoric and current legal education or law
practice or both. Any interested scholar, whether a member of CRCL or no, is
welcome to submit a proposal in the form described below. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Preliminary proposals
are due September 14, 2018 (<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">Anywhere On Earth</a></span>)</b>.
A proponent may submit more than one preliminary proposal. A subset of CRCL
(identified below) will evaluate proposals for completeness and relevance. CRCL
will then have a video conference the last week of September or first week of
October 2018 where group members and proponents will review the proposals and
have the option to align themselves with one or more of them. Thereafter CRCL
will shape its activities and the readings that it discusses over the coming
months to support the projects selected by its members. It may function as
reading group, writing group, writing workshop, or in some other form
appropriate to support the projects growing out of it.<a style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="gmail-MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span><span class="gmail-MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> <span></span></p>
<h2 style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal">Proposal form and format<span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Each proposal should be in the form of a PDF file and respond
to the following prompts:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b>Proponent
information.</b> The proponents should provide their names, affiliations, and
scholarly disciplines. CRCL expects that most proponents will come from the
fields of legal communication, legal theory, legal philosophy (or
jurisprudence), (classical) rhetorical theory, history of rhetoric,
communication studies, argumentation theory, and technical and professional
communication. Scholars from other fields should indicate the relevance of
their training and research to contemporary law, classical rhetoric, or both.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b>Project
overview.</b> The proposal should include a description of the project not
exceeding 200 words that identifies the form(s) the scholarship will take and its
likely audience(s). See the examples identified below.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b>Outline.</b>
A “thick outline” of the project or some part of it. (See note.)<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b>Example
of scholarship in applicable mode(s).</b> A brief example of some work product
that would begin to flesh out the outline. (See note.)<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b>Proponent
and collaborator proposed roles.</b> The proponents should indicate whether
they seek to lead a team on the proposed project or hope to find another
scholar to lead or co-lead the team’s work. They should indicate what they are
hoping collaborators can contribute.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>6.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b>Timelines.
</b>A brief summary of target timelines for the project. This summary can be
very tentative. It should, however, address in some meaningful way the
commitment of time that proponents are expecting of collaborators.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>7.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b>Length.</b>
Other than the project overview, there are no length limitations on proposals,
but CRCL expects most will be considerably shorter than this CFP!<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>NOTE:</b> The
requirements for thick outline and example perhaps require explanation. Some of
CRCL’s members will propose, while others will merely want to work on,
projects. The project outlines and example work product need to be sufficiently
detailed to permit potential collaborators to decide whether to align behind projects.
Thus, a high-level outline for most of the project, with a detailed outline for
part of it and sample prose (for example) for some very small portion of it or
from a similar work (or a reference to such a similar work), should help
potential collaborators understand the project at large and small scales. In
short, they need to know whether it is the kind of work they might enjoy doing.
Of course, potential collaborators may seek to influence project design; we
anticipate a dialogic process for some period of time following the
presentation meeting.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Email proposals by the deadline and direct inquiries
regarding them to Dr. Brian N. Larson, Texas A&M University School of Law, <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:BLarson@law.tamu.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">BLarson@law.tamu.edu</a></span>.
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<h2 style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal">Possible project types (not an exhaustive list)<span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The following types of project have already been discussed
at least briefly by CRCL members (though CRCL as a group will pursue none of
these unless proposed as part of this process). Project proposals of entirely different
types are also welcome. The key is to identify and substantiate meaningful
connections between classical rhetoric and contemporary law.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A symposium hosted at a law school resulting in
a symposium issue of the school’s law review focused on classical rhetoric and
contemporary law. Collaborators would commit to develop essays suitable for
presentation and publication and to assist in organizing and promoting the
symposium. The organizers of such an event might also invite recognized
speakers from outside the group to take part. Such a proposal should consider
how the symposium might be funded and whether it would be held face-to-face or
virtually.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A reader or annotated reader targeted at
advanced law students (probably in a legal rhetoric seminar). The
authors/editors might select excerpts of classical texts, provide necessary
context, offer critical evaluation, and perhaps pair them with contemporary
legal communicative performances (excerpts from briefs, court opinions, oral
arguments, etc.). Collaborators might be expected to select texts to edit,
criticize, and contextualize and for which they would describe contemporary
intersections.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A reader or annotated reader targeted at
graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) in rhetorical theory or history
of rhetoric. This might have a similar structure to the previous example, but
with a different critical focus.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A reader or annotated reader targeted at a
combination of the previous two audiences.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A law review article more narrowly focused on
some classical text or theme. The proponent could be seeking collaborators to
assist with concept, research, and writing.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span>6.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>A university press book that makes a significant
contribution to legal theory, rhetorical theory, or both. The proponent could
be seeking collaborators to assist with concept, research, and writing.<span></span></p>
<h2 style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal">Texts already discussed by CRCL<span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">These are the texts that CRCL has already read and
discussed. Project proposals are not bound to them, however. Your proposal may
require collaborators to gain familiarity with other classical texts, or with
medieval, renaissance, or later texts that engage critically with classical texts.
But at the root must be contemporary legal practices and some rhetorical text
or group of texts written before 500 CE. Proposals relating to ancient texts and
contemporary legal practices from cultures other than the West are also
welcome, but in that event proponents should be sure to provide enough context
to permit scholars previously focused on the western canon and western
practices to understand potential intersections with law or rhetoric (or both)
in the West.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gorgias. <i>Encomium of Helen</i>. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Anonymous. <i>Double Arguments (Dissoi Logoi)</i>.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Antiphon. <i>The Tetralogies</i>. <i><span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Aeschines. <i>Against
Ctesiphon</i><span>.</span> <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Demosthenes. <i>On
the Crown</i><span>.</span> <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Isocrates. <i>Against the Sophists</i>. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Isocrates. <i>Antidosis</i>. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Plato. <i>Gorgias.</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Plato. <i>Phaedrus</i>.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Aristotle: <i><span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>Categories.<span> <span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>De Interpretatione.<span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>Prior Analytics.<span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>Posterior
Analytics</i>.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>Topics </i><span>(Books I and VIII, with Excerpts from
Related Texts)</span>.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>On Rhetoric</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cicero. <i>On
the Ideal Orator [De Oratore]</i>. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Quintillian. Books One, Two and Ten of the<i>
Institutio Oratoria</i></span>. <span></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal">CRCL members mustering and evaluating proposals<span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The following members of CRCL are promoting this call for
proposals and will evaluate preliminary proposals for completeness and
relevance:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kirsten K. Davis, Stetson
University College of Law<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Melissa Greipp, Marquette
University Law School<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Brian N. Larson, Texas A&M
University School of Law<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Francis J. Mootz III</span>, <span>University
of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Susan E. Provenzano, Northwestern
Pritzker School of Law<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kristen K. Tiscione, Georgetown
University Law Center<span></span></p>
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seems unlikely, but it may be that no proposal will find even one collaborator
as a result of this process. In that event, it is our hope at least to provide
useful feedback to proponents regarding their ideas so that this will not seem
a waste of time.<span></span></p>
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