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Claire Bradley
@clairebradley.bsky.social
Lecturer and legal researcher. PhD candidate in EU law. Looking to transfer to the Bar; fascinated by historical advocacy and classical legal rhetoric. She/her www.advocacy.website
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He's definitely one of the greats! He was a standard part of Bar training for millennia as he was so influential. Ditto Aristotle, Quintilian and Demosthenes. That only stopped after WW2 - modern advocacy training is in its infancy, and l think misses out by deliberately shunning classical oratory.

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In my experience, modern advocacy training teaches you how to do advocacy, whereas studying classical legal rhetoric teaches you WHY such techniques are important if you want to be persuasive.

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Claire Bradley
@clairebradley.bsky.social
Lecturer and legal researcher. PhD candidate in EU law. Looking to transfer to the Bar; fascinated by historical advocacy and classical legal rhetoric. She/her www.advocacy.website
630 followers1k following497 posts