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Darrion Walker, ’14, successfully defended his dissertation, “The Mythic Underpinnings of Originalism: A Rhetorical and Legal Analysis,” completing his Ph.D. in Communication Studies (emphasis: Legal Rhetoric and Political Communication) at the University of Kansas.
This project has been years in the making—born out of Walker’s love for law, rhetoric, and storytelling. It interrogates how U.S. Supreme Court opinions are not only persuasive tools of legal argument but also vehicles of myth (sacred narratives treated as true), shaping our collective imagination of justice.