who provided helpful feedback on an initial draft of this Article. Ruth Anne Robbins and Melissa Weresh also provided valuable insight into early drafts. Finally, many thanks to Todd Jagger of Wolf-PAC for showing me the power of OODA as an analytical tool.
Since 2007, the Applied Legal Storytelling (AppLS) movement has helped scholars understand the role of stories in the legal system. 1 AppLS 2 scholarship differs from some of the more-familiar genres of "storytelling" scholarship in that it focuses on the practical: how does storytelling (or "narrative theory") affect what lawyers and judges do in actual cases? 3 Much, although certainly not all, of this rich body of scholarship examines storytelling from the point of view of the client or the advocate. That is, many scholars are investigating the characteristics of stories and drawing conclusions about how advocates can best take advantage of those characteristics, to tell effective stories on behalf of their clients. 4
Permission is hereby granted to use this record and the accompanying brief in classroom instruction or for other scholarly undertakings. This record is part of a project studying the relationship of narrative reasoning to rule-based reasoning. I analyze the narrative element of the brief written for this mock case in my article The Plot Thickens: The Appellate Brief as Story.
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