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Tell Us A Story, But Don't Make It A Good One: Resolving The Confusion Regarding Emotional Stories And Federal Rule Of Evidence 403, Cathren Page
Cathren Page
Abstract: Tell Us a Story, But Don’t Make It A Good One: Resolving the Confusion Regarding Emotional Stories and Federal Rule of Evidence 403 by Cathren Koehlert-Page Courts need to reword their opinions regarding Rule 403 to address the tension between the advice to tell an emotionally evocative story at trial and the notion that evidence can be excluded if it is too emotional. In the murder mystery Mystic River, Dave Boyle is kidnapped in the beginning. The audience feels empathy for Dave who as an adult becomes one of the main suspects in the murder of his friend Jimmy’s …
Teaching The Tensions, Angela P. Harris
Legal Storytelling: The Theory And The Practice - Reflective Writing Across The Curriculum, Nancy Levit
Legal Storytelling: The Theory And The Practice - Reflective Writing Across The Curriculum, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
This article concentrates on the theory of narrative or storytelling and addresses the reasons it is vital to encourage in law schools in non-clinical or primarily doctrinal courses. Section I traces the advent of storytelling in legal theory and practice: while lawyers have long recognized that part of their job is to tell their clients' stories, the legal academy was, for many years, resistant to narrative methodologies. Section II examines the current applications of Writing Across the Curriculum in law schools. Most exploratory writing tasks in law school come in clinical courses, although a few adventurous professors are adding reflective …
Calling For Stories, Nancy Levit, Allen Rostron
Calling For Stories, Nancy Levit, Allen Rostron
Nancy Levit
Storytelling is a fundamental part of legal practice, teaching, and thought. Telling stories as a method of practicing law reaches back to the days of the classical Greek orators. Before legal education became an academic matter, the apprenticeship system for training lawyers consisted of mentoring and telling war stories. As the law and literature movement evolved, it sorted itself into three strands: law in literature, law as literature, and storytelling. The storytelling branch blossomed.
Over the last few decades, storytelling became a subject of enormous interest and controversy within the world of legal scholarship. Law review articles appeared in the …
From "The Art Of War" To "Being Peace": Mindfulness And Community Lawyering In A Neoliberal Age, Angela P. Harris, Jeffrey Selbin, Margaretta Lin
From "The Art Of War" To "Being Peace": Mindfulness And Community Lawyering In A Neoliberal Age, Angela P. Harris, Jeffrey Selbin, Margaretta Lin
Angela P Harris
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Embracing The Tar Baby: Latcrit Theory And The Sticky Mess Of Race, Angela P. Harris, Leslie Espinoza
Embracing The Tar Baby: Latcrit Theory And The Sticky Mess Of Race, Angela P. Harris, Leslie Espinoza
Angela P Harris
No abstract provided.
On Doing The Right Thing: Education Work In The Academy, Angela P. Harris
On Doing The Right Thing: Education Work In The Academy, Angela P. Harris
Angela P Harris
No abstract provided.