
On July 10th, Professor Ashley B. Armstrong presented at the 10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, co-sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Law, Legal Writing Institute, and Clinical Legal Education Association. The conference brought together legal scholars, educators, and practitioners to explore the theory and practice of applied legal storytelling.
Professor Armstrong spoke on a panel about Contextual Legal Storytelling, using Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins to illustrate that judicial opinions are not neutral texts, but narratives shaped by power, context, and whose voices are amplified or deemphasized. Professor Armstrong discussed her research on pairing judicial opinions with supplementary texts to reveal a fuller legal story that the opinions alone often fail to capture.