ABSTRACT
Despite an apparently inexhaustible interest in systematic analysis of judicial opinions, lawyers and legal scholars usually overlook the most comprehensive, adaptable, and practical analysis of legal discourse ever devised: the art of rhetoric. This is regrettable because classical rhetoric is the source of most modem theories on the topic of legal discourse. As the preceding chapters illustrate, classical rhetoric offers detailed and practical advice on how to analyze all forms of discourse and is particularly thorough on the subject of legal argument.
