PrepTest 108, Section 1, Question 12
In recent years, a growing belief that the(460 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(21 more words not shown)
- Aincorporating into the(11 more words not shown)
- Beradicating from legal(8 more words not shown)
- Cgranting all participants(15 more words not shown)
- Dmaking the law(12 more words not shown)
- Einstilling an appreciation(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Williams, Bell, and Matsuda want to empower people whose accounts have been excluded because they don't speak the established legal language. Their proposed tool is personal narrative: get legal insiders to listen and develop empathy.
What we’re looking for
So we're looking for an element of that reform, whether the answer emphasizes the stories themselves or the people they could help.
Working the answers
- A
Psychology supports the earlier criticism, but importing the latest psychology and philosophy isn't the reform these scholars propose.
- B
They aren't trying to remove every particular point of view from legal judgments. Their personal stories bring people's experiences into the discussion. The earlier criticism is that perception never escapes perspective, not that reform can finally eliminate it.
- C
Equal training in the existing forms would be a different solution. They propose changing the forms of discourse accepted, rather than teaching everyone to use the insiders' current methods.
- DCorrect
Discursive practices are ways people communicate and present their accounts. Listening to personal stories makes the law responsive to people whose ways of speaking it previously excluded. That captures the broader purpose of the proposed narratives.
- E
An appreciation of legal history and methodology isn't proposed. The goal is to make excluded people's experiences heard, not to give participants a greater appreciation of established practices.
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