ABSTRACT
Creative Thinking for Lawyers (CTL) is a teaching initiative which aims to foster imagination, innovation, improvisation and integration for lawyers and other professionals through simulation, case method analysis, role play and exercises in composition. Its purpose is to focus on the development of a core of universal, transferable skills of problem solving, analysis, negotiation and decision-making, and presentation through active participation in exercises in creativity. However, legal education has tended to homogenize its mediation through the text; the narrative of case law recomposes, reinterprets and ultimately reduces conflicting accounts of human experience to the written word both as the highest and lowest common denominator. Introducing creative thinking as part of tertiary education is not a novel idea; businesses schools in particular have pioneered the link between executive training and creativity for some years. The rise of the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talks available online has further emphasized the necessity of innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and project implementation.
