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Unit of Study JUST2012 - The Art of Advocacy: Mooting and Performance Rhetoric (2021)

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    Requires attendance at intensive face-to-face classes.

Unit description

Introduces students to the practical, performative and ethical arts of courtroom advocacy. Students learn about forensic rhetoric and other aspects of courtroom behaviours

Unit content

Topic 1: Advocacy as Rhetorical Performance

Topic 2: The Five Faculties of Rhetoric

Topic 3: Delivery: The Breath (“of an unfee’d lawyer”?)

Topic 4: Gesture, Costume, Staging and Props

Topic 5: Judgment and Fair Hearing

Topic 6: Persuasive Authority: Metaphor and Analogy

Topic 7: Mooting

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Not currently available in 2021

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

perform with technical competence, imagination and professionalism in methods of mooting and the arts of appellate court advocacy

demonstrate practical awareness of the ethical aspects of the roles and responsibilities of courtroom advocates and judges

show critical familiarity with classical, renaissance and modern theories and techniques of forensic rhetoric

communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, by demonstrating the faculties of performance rhetoric

demonstrate reflective appreciation of personal competence in the art of advocacy