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Training Powerful Legal Communicators: What Does The Future Hold, Nicholas W. Allard, Heidi K. Brown
Training Powerful Legal Communicators: What Does The Future Hold, Nicholas W. Allard, Heidi K. Brown
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Visual Literacy For The Legal Profession, Richard K. Sherwin
Visual Literacy For The Legal Profession, Richard K. Sherwin
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Digital technology has transformed the way we communicate in society. Swept along on a digital tide, words, sounds, and images easily, and often, flow together. This state of affairs has radically affected not only our commercial and political practices in society, but also the way we practice law.
Unfortunately, legal education and legal theory have not kept up. Inconsistencies and unpredictability in the way courts ascertain the admissibility of various kinds of visual evidence and visual argumentation, lapses in the cross examination of visual evidence at trial, and inadequately theorized notions of visual meaning and the epistemology of affect tell …