The Tortured Lawyers Department: What Taylor Swift’s Newest Album Can Teach Students About Persuasive Legal Writing

  1. Introduction

On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift dropped her newest album, The Tortured Poets Department (and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology).[1]  The lyrical savant takes listeners through a journey of happiness, heartbreak, affairs, post-mortem examinations, alien abductions, zombies, Super Bowls, and, of course, Florida.  Although law students everywhere likely listened to the album while studying for (o

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