UIC School of Law UIC Law Open Access Repository UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship 12-2019 Still Writing at the Master’s Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric in Legal Writing for a “Woke” Legal Academy, 21 The Scholar 255 (2019) Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
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[email protected]. McMurtry-Chubb: Decolonizing Rhetoric in Legal Writing STILL WRITING AT THE MASTER’S TABLE: DECOLONIZING RHETORIC IN LEGAL WRITING FOR A “WOKE” LEGAL ACADEMY1 TERI A. MCMURTRY-CHUBB* I. WESTERN THOUGHT & INVENTIO AND DISPOSITIO AS BARRIERS TO SOCIAL JUSTICE ............................................... 258 A. Mississippi History: Conflict and Change .......................... 261 B. Loewen v. John Turnipseed & the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board ............................................... 266 C. Litigation, Legal Education, & the Dominance of the Western Rhetorical Canon ....................................... 269 II. FROM CANONICITY TO CENTERING OPPOSITIONAL RHETORICS .. 272 A. Indigenous Rhetorics .......................................................... 274 B. African Diasporic Rhetoric ...............................................