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46 S. Ill. U. L.J. 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.journals/siulj46 and id is 1 raw text is: TEACHING COURTROOM ADVOCACY PRINCIPLES AND SKILLS ACROSS SYSTEMS AND CULTURES Christopher W. Behan1 I. INTRODUCTION A silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it enabled opportunities for cross-cultural, international educational collaboration using internet video conferencing and other technologies. Opportunities emerged for educators and legal professionals from all over the world to work together in ways that were impracticable or impossible just a few years ago. In an increasingly interconnected global economy, it makes sense for students who will collaborate internationally to be taught and trained by teachers from multiple legal systems and cultures. In the world of basic advocacy skills training, collaborative international teaching may require paradigm shifts in course design, materials, and instructional techniques to accommodate the intermingling of instructors and teachers from different cultures and legal systems. This article recommends that such courses teach baseline oral advocacy skills that are generally recognized as necessary for advocates to perform competently in forums where professional judges are the decision-makers. These forums include adversarial, inquisitorial, and hybrid system bench trials presided over by professional judges, as well as mediations, arbitrations, other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) forums, or hearings before administrative tribunals. While drawing from the teaching expertise of guest instructors from other countries, collaborative international skills-based courses should be tailored primarily to reflect the laws, procedures, and cultures of the jurisdictions in which the students will practice. Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University School of Law. Juris Doctorate, Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark School of Law. Master of Laws, The Judge Advocate General's School, United States Army. Adapted from a presentation given via Zoom at the Southern Illinois University School of Law Spring 2021 Law Journal Symposium. See Chris Behan, Teaching Universal Courtroom Advocacy Principles Across Systems and Cultures, Presentation in Spring 2021 Symposium: Innovations in International Legal Education During the Pandemic: Breaking Down Barriers and Borders with Technology and Cutting-Edge Teaching Practices, SIU SCH. OF L. (Apr. 9, 2021), https://law.siu.edu/academics/law-journal/spring-2021-symposium.html. The author gratefully acknowledges the substantive feedback and editing suggestions of Valery Christiansen Behan, Linda Alinda-Ikanza, and Hugh Selby, as well as the excellent work of his research assistant, Justin D. Kay, Southern Illinois University School of Law, Class of 2022. 1

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