Meredith Wilson-Smith

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening truth. —Tim O’Brien[1] Given law’s position as a mechanism of social control and organisation, along with its inherently persuasive focus, it follows that studying effective storytelling can enhance law’s power.[2] However, a successful narrative is seldom strictly factual. In literature, this is where persuasive and rhetorical devices often enter: to convince a reader to believe something...