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Applied Legal Storytelling Conference – Chapter Two: Once Upon A Legal Story
Applied Legal Storytelling Conference – Chapter Two: Once Upon A Legal Story Agenda
July 22-24, 2009
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Why this conference?
This second Applied Legal Storytelling conference was imagined and realized because the conference organizers wished to create a sustainable dialogue about the application of storytelling elements to the practice and pedagogy of law. This conference continues the discussion began at the first Once Upon a Legal Time conference held at City Law School in London in 2007. We are committed to spotlighting the concept of a story in ways that will directly and tangibly benefit law students (i.e. future lawyers) and legal practitioners (i.e. former law students).

The 2009 conference, Chapter Two: Once Upon A Legal Story will include presentations by over fifty legal professionals from diverse areas of legal study and practice. Presenters will add their unique takes on this new area of legal scholarship that seeks to explore the role of narrative in legal practice and legal education.

Segment One:
Argumentation + Narration = Persuasion (An Empirical Study of Storytelling in Appellate Brief Writing)
Kenneth Chestek

The Science of Storytelling
Ruth Anne Robbins
Steve Johansen

Segment Two:
A Story with No End in Sight and Why Story Telling Works
Kate O’Neill
Lea Vaughn

Segment Three:
The Art of Legal Writing
Maureen B. Collins

Using Graphic Novels to Teach Legal Storytelling: Visual Metaphors and Persuasion
Lenora Ledwon

Segment Four:
Stories Without Endings: The Stories of Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence Seeking U Visa Relief
Jamie Rene Abrams

Post-Disaster Narrative & Litigation: Reflections on Storytelling and Social Justice from the Gulf Coast
Davida Finger

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American Ways of Death
Phyllis Goldfarb

Segment Six:
Storytelling Across the Curriculum From Margin to Center, From Clinic to Classroom
Carolyn Grose
Binny Miller

Segment Seven:
Reconciling Colliding Images: Overcoming Adverse Stock Structures in Statutory Interpretation
Michael R. Smith

Segment Eight:
The Complete Story of Legal Theory
Sarah Nason

Segment Nine:
Stories Within Stories – Incitement to Genocide and Law’s Narrative
Noah B. Novogrodsky
Ed Morgan

Segment Ten:
No Story Is An Island – What John Donne, John Wayne, And Johnnie Cochran Can Tell Us About The Role of Cultural Narratives In Case Theories
Ian Gallacher

Segment Eleven:
Using Narrative Theory to Apply the “Acknowledging the Student’s Perspective” Provision of Autonomy Support to Improve Clinical Professor-Student Interactions in Law School
Carol L. Wallinger

Segment Twelve:
The Use of Real Life Stories in Teaching Legal Drafting
Karin Mika

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Using Storytelling in Scholarly Writing
Amy Vorenberg

Segment Fourteen:
The Bounds of Storytelling: Using Classical Greek and Roman Rhetoric to Shape the Ethics of Storytelling in Modern Litigation
Melissa Love Greipp

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Out of the Ashes: 9/11: A Journey of Film, Law and Narrative
Marilyn J. Berger

Segment Sixteen:
A Tale of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling Through Repeated Experiences
Stefan H. Krieger
Serge Martinez

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Stories in Law: Providing Space for ‘Oppositionists’?
Steven Cammiss

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Discovering the Story
Dan Williams – Northeastern University School of Law

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Sowing Persuasive Seeds: The Use of Foreshadowing in Legal Argument
Michael Higdon

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Heroic Narratives of Law Reform: The Court as Narrator and Protagonist
Andrea McArdle

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A Novel Way to Teach Drafting: Using Literature to Instill the Practice of Law
Scott A. Anderson

Segment Twenty-Two:
Aristotle Meets Sherlock Holmes: Truth, Probability, and Narrative Coherence
Chris Rideout

Segment Twenty-Three:
On Becoming a Better Lawyer: Feminist Legal Theory, Storytelling, and Best Practices
Susan L. Brody

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Storytelling for the Criminal Defendant
Keith A. Findley & Byron C. Lichstein – University of Wisconsin School of Law

Capital Post-Conviction Work: Working with Clinical Students in Developing the Client’s Humanizing Life Story
Sean O’Brien

Segment Twenty-Five:
Stories About Storytelling: 100 years of Brief-writing Advice
Helen Anderson

Telling through Type: Typography and Narrative in Legal Briefs
Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson

Segment Twenty-Six:
Lawyer as Storyteller: The Role of Empathy and Compassion in Telling Effective Client Stories
Kristin Gerdy

Hearing Clients’ Stories Through the Eyes of Other Professionals: Bringing Other Professionals Into the Lawyer/Client Relationship
Spencer Rand

Segment Twenty-Seven:
Using Corroborating Narratives in Cross-Examination: An Effective Alternative to Traditional Cross-Examination Strategies
Victoria L. Chase

Telling the client’s Story Effectively: A Model for Direct Examination Preparation for Law
Clinic Students
Angela McCaffrey

Segment Twenty-Eight:
Fitting Narrative to Audience and a Narrative View of Evidentiary Rules
Bruce Ching

The Garden of Forking Paths: The Problem of Narratology in Criminal Law
Anders Walker
Brian Foley

Segment Twenty-Nine:
How Can Story Motifs Help As We Mentor Student Professional Development?
Harriet N. Katz

War Stories: Mentoring New Lawyers through Storytelling
Julie A. Oseid

The Story Within the Lawyer: Using Storytelling to Promote Moral Discernment
Deborah Schmedemann

Segment Thirty:
When the Truth and the Story Collide: What We Can Learn from the Experience of Non-Fiction Writers about the Limits of Storytelling in Legal Writing
Jeanne Kaiser

A Wide Stance Indeed: Analysis of Opposing Sides in the Senator Larry Craig Case
Benjamin Opipari

Segment Thirty-One:
A Cautionary Tale: Using Stories From Other Legal Cultures as the Basis for Scholarship
Stacy Caplow

Orphan Epics: Representing the Adolescent Client in Dependency Proceedings
Lisa Kelly

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The Narratives of Harry Potter and the Law
Sue Liemer
Mary Beth Beazley
Eric Gouvin
Aaron Schwabach
Danaya Wright

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Digital Storytelling in Child Advocacy
Amy E. Halbrook
Caleb Paull

Fast Forward: Using New Media Narrative Tools to Persuade
Lucy Jewel

Segment Thirty-Four:
Why Isn’t the English Legal Profession Interested in Storytelling? La Lotta Continua
Robert McPeake

The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on July 22-24th, 2009.