What Judges Think of Lawyers – From Judge Posner

by | Legal News

Back in 2008, Judge Richard A. Posner and Professor Albert H. Yoon sent out a survey to a number of judges seeking to determine how lawyers are perceived by the judiciary. Recently, they published their findings in the Stanford Law Review. The abstract: Studying the...

How to Prime Insight

by | Research

Interesting piece on on how to trick oneself into creativity over at Psycasm. I thought the best bit was below: In a seperate papar, Chrysikou (2006), looked at how best to train insight. It seems (from my understanding of the paper) that some simple...

Dickens in Lagos

by | Writing

Not law related, but a great read. Provides perspective when you think you might have it rough. If you’re reading this – you don’t. Two years ago in Rangoon, I met a toothpick-thin, boisterous young Burmese man called Somerset. He had conferred this...