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Interactive simulations of legal, policy and governance problems offer an immersive environment to explore institutional judgement. Take a role, assess the incentives and interests, test competing arguments and make a decision.
Explore the gap between the law on paper and law in practice.
The difference is made by people: making decisions, weighing incentives, and through these choices, defining standards.
Scenario character sparring partner
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Take a role inside a live institutional challenge.
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Question characters, examine documents and engage with the evidence, and policy and personal constraints.
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Apply law, policy, evidence and ideology to your position and then exercise your judgement. Experience the reaction from those affected by your decision.
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Compare the paths people took, and the reasoning they applied to get there.
Rules don’t apply themselves.
Between a rule and an outcome sit interpretation, evidence, incentives, institutional habits and human judgement.
Advocacy Arena makes that space playable with gamified legal scenarios.
Connect practice with authority and methodically identify how conclusions are reached. Advocacy Arena is built for legal teams, risk and governance managers, law students, and anyone who wants to explore how doctrine becomes default practice and to consider whether those practices are robust, risk-adjusted or reckless.
Gamified legal advocacy
Credit contracts designed for home loans simultaneously attempt to speak several languages. One that conforms to the consumer law, another that is unbridled by its constraints. One that is clear to the consumer, another that is intelligible to the courts. They also need to work in practice.
Make it playable.
Some decisions are too consequential, contested or complicated to explore in a slide deck.
We can turn a legal, policy or governance problem into an Arena for your class, team or organisation.
Use an existing simulation with your cohort.
Tailor an existing simulation to a particular learning objective or context.
Build a new simulation around a problem you want people to confront.
Turn doctrine into decisions to be made.
Use Advocacy Arena in seminars, clinics and professional education to connect technical knowledge with judgement, advocacy and professional skills.
Put a proposition into play before the consequences become real.
See how people identify and interpret the issues, where judgement diverges, whether principles are applied consistently, and where institutional practices hold up or might benefit from further development.
Common questions
Q&A
Advocacy Arena provides interactive simulations of legal, policy and governance problems. Each game places you inside a realistic scenario with a role, a record of documents and sources of pressure. Characters with opposing interests will challenge participants to approach a problem the way it is worked in practice: ask questions, weigh constraints, negotiate a position and observe the effect of its implementation.
Characters are AI-supported and provide sparring partners for participants so that they can prepare to engage in the scenes. Each one understands what its position would plausibly expect and have varying degrees of appreciation for the incentives and constraints that inform the views held by others.
Each scenario involves lab assignments that ask participants to develop a clause, policy position, or correspondence to address a point that arises in the scenario. Guided labs offer structure and market insights and the characters provide feedback that reveals the soft points in the approach.
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Legal and risk teams, governance managers, law students and educators can use Advocacy Arena to incorporate interactive scenarios in their training and education programs.
Ask questions. Challenge explanations. Examine the record. Develop your argument. Change your mind. AI supports characters and interaction inside the scenario to create a dynamic learning experience. The legal, policy and institutional architecture of each Advocacy Arena defines the problem, incorporates references to market activity and identifies issues which could benefit from institutional guidance.
No. Each scenario provides the documents, rules and context that a character needs. Some characters are lawyers and will draw more deeply on technical knowledge. Others interact with legal concepts from other perspectives and are not expected to have legal training.
A facilitator invites participants to join and assigns each participant a role. Preparation materials will bring participants into the scenario with background, technical primers and a snapshot of market activity. Scenes are framed around core interactions. Facilitators are supported with prompts to encourage participants to address the tensions between their perspectives. Debrief notes are structured to help identify whether a group adopts consistent principles in applying and communicating their positions.
Each scenario is made up of several distinct scenes. They can be hosted over a single 2 hour session or individual scenes in separate sessions. The time required to prepare for the session will depend on the scenario and the role assigned to each participant. We recommend allowing 1-2 hours for preparation and debriefing.
Games are joined by invitation. Sign in to see what is available to you, or request an invite to arrange access for your team, class or organisation.
