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"Learning" Research And Legal Education: A Brief Overview And Selected Bibliographical Survey, Donald J. Kochan
"Learning" Research And Legal Education: A Brief Overview And Selected Bibliographical Survey, Donald J. Kochan
Donald J. Kochan
Feeling At Home: Law, Cognitive Science, And Narrative, Lea B. Vaughn
Feeling At Home: Law, Cognitive Science, And Narrative, Lea B. Vaughn
Lea B Vaughn
What is the “how and why” of law’s affinity for narrative? In order to explain why the use of stories is such an effective teaching and presentation strategy in the law, this paper will consider theories and accounts from cognitive as well as evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and, briefly, cultural anthropology. This account seeks to address “how” narrative helps us learn and use the law as well as “why” we are so compelled to use stories in teaching and in practice.
Brain science, simplified here, suggests that the first task is to “grab” someone’s attention. Emotionally charged events are more likely …