Millennial Jurors: Entertain Us

by Keith Lee | Legal News

“If a generation is going to arrive in the jury box that is totally unused to sitting and listening but is using technology to gain the information it needs to form a judgment, that changes the whole orality tradition with which we are familiar.” November 2008, Lord...

A Judge’s Mind or 5 Cognitive Illusions of Judges

by Keith Lee | Research

  I recently got around to reading a whopper of an old law review article that I had been wanting to read for awhile entitled, “Inside the Judicial Mind.” From the introduction: …we conducted an empirical study to determine whether five common...

The Inverse of Informative

by Keith Lee | Legal News

Compare: I’ll be arriving at John F Kennedy airport on Friday evening; please meet the British Airways Concorde flight. Arr JFK Fri pm, pls mt BA Cncrd flt At first blush, I imagine many will lament the latter as a denigration of speech by young people immersed in...

Law Library of Congress Archiving Blawgs

by Keith Lee | Research

  Maybe others were aware of this, but I was not. Starting in 2007, the Law Library of Congress began archiving blawgs: The collection has grown to more than one hundred items covering a broad cross section of legal topics.  Blawgs can also be retrieved by...

What are the most amazing Supreme Court oral arguments of the past few years?

by Keith Lee | Case Law

  Over at r/law on Reddit, someone asked the question: “What are the most amazing Supreme Court oral arguments of the past few years?” The user had their own opinion: I discovered that the U.S. Supreme Court publishes audio of oral arguments online,...

1st Amendment + 2nd Amendment = The Right to Print Arms

by Keith Lee | Legal News

  For the unaware, one of the greatest potential disruptors for entire swaths of the global economy over the next decade is 3D printing. From Wikipedia: 3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by...