Human Perspective and Conflict in Feminist Legal Theory

This research summarizes common approaches within feminist and rhetorical theorist Elizabeth Britt. By comparing two of her studies, this research identifies a common element in legal rhetoric theory: namely, how legal rhetoric theory often functions on identifying unique human perspectives that consistently occur in or influence court decisions. Additionally, such research shows how legal rhetoric not only concerns human conflict in terms of something to be decided on (i.e., the conflict within situations examined at court) but also in terms that the law itself decides by human conflict (i.e., the conflict that occurs within the legal processes itself). This research could be used as part of a legal rhetoric theory curriculum, and it could also be used to help draft legal rhetoric that takes into account this theory.