Using personas, vignettes, and diagrams in legal education

Personas, vignettes, and visual technologies of narrative can help educators tell memorable and engaging stories about the law that both illustrate and interrogate theory and methods. In illustrating core concepts, these approaches can simplify complexity, reduce text fatigue, and create spaces for knowledge co-production. In interrogating legal theory, they can offer quick-access routes to sites where meaning is created and shared whilst simultaneously sidestepping some of the limitations of linguistic framing. This chapter shows how personas, vignettes, and visual approaches might be used in legal education, exploring “Academic Ann’s” dilemmas as she introduces her students to an area of methodological and theoretical complexity.