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Boy, I wish they had something like this when I was in school!
That is the heart, both of how she teaches legal writing and research at Rutgers and also a new article she published for the Seattle Law Review with the unusual title:
"Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers, and Merlin: Telling the Client’s Story Using the Characters and Paradigm of the Archetypal Hero’s Journey."
The piece — like others Robbins has written — makes a simple point: To be a good lawyer, learn how to employ fiction to present your client’s case in the most persuasive way.
Harry Potter fits here. He is orphan and deserving of sympathy — as, she says, a client should be portrayed. In imaginative legal briefs, judges could be invited to act like a mentor who can help rather than punish (like Professor Dumbledore). The opposition should not be confronted as villains, but treated rather as obstacles for the hero to overcome. Think Draco Malfoy, the school bully.
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