Bar associations, legal groups, and law schools like yours have used The Defamation Experience as a vital tool for diversity programming. Plus, hosting The Defamation Experience provides you the unique opportunity to incorporate CLE credits with this theatrical experience. And now, you can bring this proven experience to your audience no matter where they’re located with DefEx Online. Learn More

Unlike any other program available, The Defamation Experience is a riveting courtroom drama, with a twist—your audience is the jury.

The courtroom of The Defamation Experience offers a familiar setting for your audience to be engaged and moved by theater while coming face-to-face with some of the most pressing issues of our time: race, class, religion, gender, and the law. These issues can skew perceptions of jurors, judges, and even someone’s own legal representation, based on conscious or unconscious bias.

Through the power of theater, The Defamation Experience breaks barriers to self-examination allowing your audience to confront their own biases and engage in civil discourse, driving meaningful conversations that will last for days, weeks, and months.

Deborah Johnson shares her experiences booking DEFAMATION at RWU Law.

“… However, with this increase of racial and ethnic diversity, new challenges have emerged to promote greater inclusion for diverse students.  With more diversity in the classroom, there is a desire by those traditionally underrepresented in the legal profession to have a greater voice in talking about, and more discussion around, issues that affect them and their communities.  Students from all backgrounds are looking for opportunities to ask questions and share their perspectives on these issues and the law.  Yet, many are reluctant to have these conversations in class for fear of reprisal or of being misunderstood, misjudged and mislabeled.”

Posted by Deborah Johnson on 12/04/15

[read her full story here]