TY  - BOOK
AU  - Britt,Elizabeth C.
TI  - RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric. Reimagining Advocacy: Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic 
T2  - RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
SN  - 9780271081335
U1  - 362.82/9286 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - advocacy
KW  - clinical legal education
KW  - domestic violence
KW  - embodied rhetorics
KW  - feminist rhetoric
KW  - legal rhetoric
KW  - rhetorical education
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Bodies, Perspectives, Advocacies --; 1. Attitudes toward Advocacy --; 2. At the Law School: Learning to Recognize the Expertise of Others --; 3. At the Hospital: Learning to Defer to Others --; 4. At the Courthouse: Learning to Support the Rhetorical Work of Others --; Conclusion: Lessons --; Appendix A: Research Methods --; Appendix B: Interview Participants --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice systems. In this volume, Elizabeth Britt argues that learning embodied advocacy—a practice that results from an expanded understanding of expertise based on lived experience—and adopting it in legal settings can directly and tangibly help victims of abuse.Focusing on clinical legal education at the Domestic Violence Institute at the Northeastern University School of Law, Britt takes a case-study approach to illuminate how challenging the context, aims, and forms of advocacy traditionally embraced in the U.S. legal system produces better support for victims of domestic violence. She analyzes a wide range of materials and practices, including the pedagogy of law school training programs, interviews with advocates, and narratives written by students in the emergency department, and looks closely at the forms of rhetorical education through which students assimilate advocacy practices. By examining how students learn to listen actively to clients and to recognize that clients have the right and ability to make decisions for themselves, Britt shows that rhetorical education can succeed in producing legal professionals with the inclination and capacity to engage others whose values and experiences diverge from their own.By investigating the deep relationship between legal education and rhetorical education, Reimagining Advocacy calls for conversations and action that will improve advocacy for others, especially for victims of domestic violence seeking assistance from legal professionals
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271081335
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271081335
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271081335/original
ER  -