Education:
J.D.    University of Denver College of Law
M.A.     Speech Communication, Colorado State University
B.A.      Speech Communication, Colorado State University

Publications:  My main area of interest is the study of rhetoric in appellate opinions.  

“Rally ‘Round the Burning Cross, Boys: A Legal and Rhetorical Analysis of Virginia v. Black,” Communication Law Review, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2005), pp. 25-51.

“Low-Income Grandparents as the Newest Draftees in the Government’s War on Drugs: A Legal and Rhetorical Analysis of Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker,” Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy, Vol. X, No. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 157-180 (with co-author, M. Jason Williams).

“The Reconstruction of Legal Reality: Choice of Language, Definition, and Analogy as Methods for Limiting the Fora Available for Public Expression,” Free Speech Yearbook, Vol. 34 (1996), pp. 63-77.

Courses Taught:
Business and Professional Communication
Media Law
First Amendment Law
Twentieth Century Rhetorical Theory
Media Ethics
Communication Research