(Formerly titled Forensic Persuasion Seminar) Introduction to a variety of persuasion skills, including logic, reasoning (inductive, deductive, analogical, circular, paradoxical, metaphorical). Interviewing and interrogation techniques; listening skills; nonverbal behavior and the detection of deception; hypnotic communication technique; salesmanship; juror assessment techniques; and lawyers' styles, tactics, and strategies. Special emphasis on the relationships among persuasion, truth, ethics, and justice. Public Interest and Social Justice Law Certificate course. (3 units)