Lunch seminar with Marcus Schnetter
Rhetoric as a Legitimacy Booster. Persuasion in Decisions of Constitutional Courts
Abstract
It is common wisdom that the influence and importance of courts is a matter not of legality but of legitimacy. My research grounds on the hypothesis that courts strategically employ language to persuade their audiences to gain legitimacy. In brief: they are using rhetoric. That can be proven by a close reading of court decisions, which evidences an interweaving of form and content in legal reasoning.
Speaker bio
Marcus is a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 1385 "Law and Literature" at the University of Münster. Prior to that, he studied politics and law in Münster and Sheffield. He is currently in the last phase of his PhD studies and joins iCourts to discuss his dissertation on rhetoric and persuasion in court decisions addressing the relationship between national and European fundamental rights protection.
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