Abstract
This article discusses both visual rhetoric and visual narrativity. Visual rhetoric is the use of graphics, photographs, and other depictions for communication, for construction of knowledge and understanding, and ultimately for persuasion in the truth and rightness of the communication. Narrativity, which is sometimes described as narrative reasoning or storytelling," is the modern movement to focus our legal writing on the tools that best communicate our clients' stories-their situation, conditions, and circumstances-along with the "story" of the development, growth, and meaning of the law itself that provides the context for the clients' legal situation. Communicating the story of the development of the law and the story of a particular legal situation (e.g., a client's case) to various audiences is an essential part of legal education and law practice.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
2-9-2021
Repository Citation
Murray, Michael D., "The Ethics of Visual Legal Rhetoric" (2016). Law Faculty Scholarly Articles. 651.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/law_facpub/651
Notes/Citation Information
Michael D. Murray, The Ethics of Visual Legal Rhetoric, 13 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 107-155 (2016).