Stephen J. Paskey

COORDINATOR OF THE LAWR PROGRAM LECTURER IN LAW, LEGAL ANALYSIS, WRITING AND RESEARCH

JD, University of Maryland School of Law BA, Michigan State University

(716) 645-5044 sjpaskey@buffalo.edu

We tend to think of law as a logical system of rules, but legal rules are ultimately made of words and the relationships between them. My work focuses on the implications of that simple fact, using concepts from rhetorical theory, narrative theory, cognitive linguistics, and other disciplines to question the conventional understanding of what legal rules are, how they work, and how lawyers, judges, and juries reason in real-world cases.” AREAS OF INTEREST

LAW AND NARRATIVE LAW AND RHETORIC REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAW ARTICLES Reframing Law’s Domain: Narrative, Rhetoric, and the Forms of Legal Rules, 29 Narrative 178 (2021).

On Justice: An Origin Story, 68 Buffalo Law Review 1515 (2020).