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         Editor’s Note:
           from the desk of:
           Larry Dougherty
           Editor in Chief
           Florida Law Review

Table of Contents

     I.      Introduction

    II.    Constitutional Doctrine as the Outcome of Persuasive Lawyering

   III.     A Shift in Analysis to Better Understand Constitutional Doctrine

             A.  Constitutional Controversy Highlights Facts

             B.  Constitutional Controversy Reconciles Law

              C.  Constitutional Controversy Illuminates Where We Are Going, or Will Not Go

     IV.      Conclusion

    Author Biography (check back for this)

    Alphabetical List of Clips (check back for this)

With this Article by Professor Stephen A. Higginson of Loyola University College of Law, the Florida Law Review presents the first multimedia article in our sixty-year history. We invite you not only to read Professor Higginson’s piece about oral advocacy before the United States Supreme Court, but also to listen to the moments of Supreme Court advocacy that Professor Higginson writes about in his Article. Supreme Court audio recordings of litigant arguments began in 1955, and today are available from The Oyez Project, at http://www.oyez.org. In this Article, each oral advocacy moment may be heard by clicking into the footnote containing the oral argument after the signal hear. If you are reading this Article in print form, you may listen to links to the audio clips from our website at http://www.floridalawreview.org/
higginson/mp3list.htm. We are grateful for permission for this shared usage given by Professor Jerry Goldman, director of the Oyez Project.