Is Advocacy an inate skill or can it be taught? How might we teach it:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/advocacy-as-if-the-person-represented-or-for-the-person-represented

UK lawyers used to think that advocacy was a God-given art. In the last 20 years - not more - they have discovered how to train advocacy, applying skills acquired from jurisdictions around the world. Analysis of how advocacy really works benefits from looking back at earlier periods, and then looking forward to today and beyond asking whether advocacy is for establishing the truth and whether the advocate is as if the person represented or simply advocating to win on the client's behalf at almost any cost. This lecture may include practical demonstrations of examples of advocacy and may involve active engagement with the audience - if willing!

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/advocacy-as-if-the-person-represented-or-for-the-person-represented

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