Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1 Judgment in Classical Rhetoric
6. 1 Justice Kennedy and the Interpretation of Legal Texts: The Classical Background 13
7. 2 Sex and Moral Pollution in the Rhetoric of Justice Kennedy 28
8. Part 2 Judgment in Stasis Theory
9. 3 Justice Kennedy’s Definitional Construction of Gay Rights in Lawrence and Obergefell: Legal Rhetorical Analysis with the Interpretive Stases 45
10. 4 Justice Kennedy, Natural Liberty, and Classical Stasis Theory: Advancing Free Speech with Rhetorical Knowledge and Interpretive Argumentation 61
11. 5 Romer v. Evans: Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia, and the Rhetoric of Judging Well 77
12. Part 3 Judgment in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
13. 6 Constructing a Free Agent: “Good Judgment” in Justice Kennedy’s Lawrence v. Texas Opinion 95
14. 7 Justice Kennedy and Natural Law Argumentation 110
15. 8 Justice Kennedy, Federalism, and the Nonproduction of Rhetorical Knowledge 125
16. Part 4 Judgment and Justice Kennedy’s Ethos
17. 9 Justice Kennedy’s Free Speech Optimism 141
18. 10 Strongmen and Neurotics: Visible Struggle and the Construction of Judicial Ethos 155
19. 11 The Anticlassification Topic and Equal-Liberty Template 170
20. Part 5 Justice Kennedy’s Misjudgments: Women, Race, and Immigrants
21. 12 Performing a “View from Nowhere”: Justice Kennedy’s Denial of Embodied Knowledge 187
22. 13 Women in Justice Kennedy’s Jurisprudence 201
23. 14 Justice Kennedy’s Anticlassification Doctrine: Not Judging Well 216
24. 15 Whose Freedom? Justice Kennedy’s Sovereignty, Autonomy, and Liberty Discourses in the Immigration Cases 232
25. Part 6 Assessment
26. 16 Rhetorical Vision and Judgment: Did Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Judge Well? 247
27. List of Contributors 265
28. Index of Cases 269
29. Index of Names and Subjects 273