Murray: Visual Legal Rhetoric for Cross-Cultural Communication

Michael D. Murray of Valparaiso University has posted Visual Legal Rhetoric for Cross-Cultural Communication .

Here is the abstract:

This Article addresses communication within the “new normal” in legal education and law practice in which our audiences of LL.M. and J.D. students, clients, and jurors increasingly are diverse and multicultural. Communication with these audiences can be facilitated by using visual rhetorical techniques to apply a more universal language of communication through images, graphics, and diagrams to bridge gaps in communication caused by cultural and language barriers. This Article is the first to address the challenges presented by the growing population of non-native speakers of English with diverse cultural knowledge, history, and experience in law school and legal settings by looking to the growing body of scholarship on visual rhetoric, which draws from law and popular culture, cognitive studies and brain science, data visualization studies, and modern argument theory in rhetoric. The prevalence and ubiquitous growth of visual media in the world today, delivered across the globe through the pervasive vehicle of the internet, and combined with the technology to create, communicate, receive, and consume visual information, presents opportunities for legal educators and lawyers to use visual rhetorical devices to construct knowledge and understanding in their audiences, and ultimately, to persuade them of the truth and rightness of the communication. Therefore, this Article promotes improvement in the communication of law to language-challenged, culturally diverse audiences by use of the more universal language of visual rhetoric.

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Call for papers: Doctoral Consortium @ JURIX 2014

A call for papers has been issued for the Doctoral Consortium at JURIX 2014: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, scheduled to be held 10 December 2014, at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

The submission deadline is 11 October 2014.

Papers are invited on any of the topics described in the main conference call for papers, concerning the theory, technology, or application of artificial intelligence and law.

For more details and submission instructions, please see the complete call.

HT Monica Palmirani

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What Exactly Is a 'Boutique' Law Firm?

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LVI 2014: Law via the Internet Conference: Storify, links, and resources

LVI 2014 Africa: Law via the Internet Conference, was held 30 September-1 October 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa.

The conference Website is at: http://ift.tt/1hAbSzJ

The conference program is at: http://ift.tt/Zn0dBQ

One Twitter hashtag for the conference was #lvi2014

Click here for a storify of images and Twitter tweets from the conference.

Here is a description of the conference, from the conference Website:

Every year, the Free Access to Law Movement holds the Law Via the Internet (LVI) conference that brings together individuals and institutions from all corners of the earth who are united in their belief that public legal information is the common heritage of humankind and that such information should be made available free of charge and free from any restrictions on its use and re-use. [...]

Cape Town is also famous for its world-class Afropolitan university – the University of Cape Town, where this year’s LVI will be held. Kenya Law, the African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII), and the Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) are teaming together to host what promises to be an exciting conference in this beautiful setting. [...]

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Starger: New version 2.0 of SCOTUS Mapper software

Colin Starger of the University of Baltimore has released a new version 2.0 of his SCOTUS Mapper software, which visualizes traditions of U.S. federal judicial doctrine.

Here are excerpts from the announcement:

[...] The latest version of this doctrinal mapping software program includes several powerful new features.

• New Algorithm for Automated Citation Network Mapping


• Direct Link to SCOTUS opinions via Court Listener


• Supreme Court Database (Spaeth) Coding Visualization


• Network + Genealogical Views


• Filtering by Opinion Text


• UI Improvement


• New Library of Maps including cases from 2013 and 2014 Terms

Demonstration Videos

To quickly learn about the major new features in SCOTUS Mapper 2.0, check out the three short videos below. For a more in-depth look, check out the 2.0 Network Examples page or explore the new Mapper Library. [...]

For more details and links to the demonstration videos, please see the complete announcement.

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5 Mistakes Not to Make With Your Law Firm Website

Setting up a website for a law firm? That's easy! Just go to one of those DIY tools -- a site builder -- and put up a page with contact info, the list of attorneys, and a brief rundown of...



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