Marianne Constable

Marianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the Center for the Study of Law & Society and Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Women and Gender Studies.

Her research focuses on legal rhetoric and philosophy, analyzing how legal speech acts shape law-in-action. Current projects examine the 'new unwritten law' in historical Chicago cases and intersections of rhetoric with environment, administration, and learning theory.

• Major works include Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts (2014) and Just Silences (2005)
• Key article topics: Foucault/immigration law, Nietzsche/jurisprudence, Schauer on rules, Cover on violence, Montesquieu/systems theory

Awards:

• J. Willard Hurst Prize (1995)
• NEH Fellowship (2013-14)
• Zaffaroni Family Chair in Undergraduate Education (2009-2014)
• Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award