Although many universities are sadly cutting back on course offerings in the humanities—the American Academy of Arts and Sciences reports a recent decline of 14.1% in the number of humanities degrees—Atlanta’s Emory University (including the law school) is embracing the humanities by investing more resources in this area of the liberal arts.

For aspiring trial lawyers, this is encouraging news. As all good trial lawyers know, the essence of high-quality trial work is imaginative storytelling and persuasion, bounded by the rules of evidence and common sense. Storytelling, of course, requires the adept and persuasive use of language, which in turn requires a commanding vocabulary, and a sophisticated sense of moral intuitions.