A University of Iowa law professor and corporate law expert plans to use a popular and immersive fantasy trading card game to train future lawyers how to read documents carefully.
Professor Mihailis Diamantis says reading text very closely is a critical skill all lawyers need to have, and they can learn it by playing Magic: The Gathering.
“A lot of people might be more familiar with Pokémon, if they have kids. Magic: The Gathering is basically Pokémon on steroids,” Diamantis says. “It’s a game system with a rule book that’s evolved over the last 30-some years. The rule book is now 350 pages long. They have 35,000 cards and an international, very devoted following.”…