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Advocacy Arena
Interactive simulations of legal, policy and governance dilemmas offer an immersive environment to explore institutional judgement. Take a role, assess the incentives and interests, test competing arguments and make a decision.
Experience the push back
The difference is made by people: making decisions, weighing incentives, and through these choices, defining standards.
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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.
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 complies with consumer law, another that is unbridled by its constraints. One that makes sense to borrowers, another that holds up in court. They must also work as financial instruments, supporting the flow of mortgage debt through the capital markets.
The Luna Posse applied to join the new Astro Games League — and were rejected. Once the initial disappointment faded, questions took its place. Why had they been turned down? How had the decision been made? To find out, they must navigate the freedom of information system.
Some decisions are too consequential, contested or complicated to explore in a slide deck.
We can turn a legal, policy or governance challenge into an arena for your class, team or organisation.
Use an existing scenario with your cohort.
Develop a scenario to introduce an issue or set of circumstances.
Develop a new scenario around a problem you want to bring into the open.
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
Advocacy Arena offers interactive simulations of legal, policy and governance scenarios. Participants take on assigned roles, each with distinct interests, responsibilities and pressures. The evidence and events create tensions that participants must work through: ask questions, weigh constraints, test arguments, negotiate and see how decisions play out. Advocating from an assigned role invites participants to explore perspectives they may not share—or have considered before.
Characters are supported by AI and informed by legal developments, policy proposals and market commentary. Participants interact with them to prepare for scenes with other participants. Each character has a defined knowledge profile reflecting their role and technical expertise. Part of the challenge is to meet others at their level of understanding and develop positions that respond to their concerns.
Labs ask participants to draft a clause, develop a policy position or write correspondence addressing an issue in the scenario. Guided labs provide structure and market insights, while character feedback challenges assumptions and highlights points that need further work.
Advocacy Arena is built for legal and risk teams, governance professionals, law students and educators who want to bring interactive scenarios into their training and education programs. See how people think, interact and make decisions before the stakes become real.
Participants actively work through a situation: asking questions, challenging explanations, examining the record, developing arguments, communicatingn them and reconsidering their positions. AI-supported characters make these interactions responsive, while the legal, policy and institutional framework grounds each scenario in substantive issues and market practice. Participants explore how rules operate in practice and where clearer institutional guidance may be useful.
No. Talking with the characters should assist participants in understanding or refreshing on the technical issues and the way it might be encountered in practice. Some roles have a knowledge graph that has a deeper technical foundation. Talking to other characters can unlock analysis.
A facilitator invites participants and assigns roles. Participants prepare using background materials, technical primers and relevant market context. Each scene centres on an interaction, with facilitator prompts to help participants explore tensions between their roles. A structured debrief helps the group examine its decisions and consider whether participants applied and communicated their principles consistently.
Each scene addresses one aspect of the theme addressed in the scenario. A typical scenario can be discussed in 20-30 minutes. Hosts can schedule scenese separately or together to accommodate different schedules. Preparation time varies by scenario and role. We recommend allowing 1-2 hours for preparation and debriefing.
Pre-registration is open. Sign up to join as a Stag (participant) or Duke (host) to see the scenarios prepared for your use, or request a visitor invitation to assess whether these scenarios are right for your team, class or organisation.
