Hunting Dinosaurs? A Conversation with Steve Susman and Tara Trask on the...
An exciting new project at NYU: The Civil Jury Project. Here's a conversation between Steve Susman and Tara Trask about the project.
View ArticleDo Trial Consultants Spell the End of Justice?
Do trial consultants spell the end of justice? Or the other way around? Or, perhaps, somewhere in the middle?
View ArticleRevealing Juror Bias Without Biasing Your Juror: Experimental Evidence For...
Prospective jurors "know" the "right answer" to the questions on whether they can be fair and unbiased. But in this research, two academics show us how traditional voir dire and survey questions pose...
View ArticleJurors Googling & Blogging – Can a Juror Pledge Stop Them?
We've been discussing how to stop (or at least minimize) the number of jurors doing internet research while they are serving as jurors. Here, the idea of a "juror pledge" is presented as a way to...
View ArticleThe Juror Internet Research Scale (JIRS): Identifying the Jurors Who Won’t...
The problem of jurors researching on the internet used to be referred to as the "Google Mistrial" but now has become ubiquitous. This article describes the development of the Juror Internet Research...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Traumatized Witness
One of the biggest challenges lawyers face is witness examination. You know your job, you have done the preparation and yet, somehow, at some point, your witness seems to transform right in front of...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Accessed Articles of 2015
Every year we identify the top 10 articles chosen by our readers as most interesting in the calendar year. This year these articles are our top ten. Have you missed any of them? This is your chance to...
View ArticleExpressing Anger Increases Male Jurors’ Influence, but Decreases Female...
In her autobiography, Justice Sonia Sotomayor highlights emotion expression as a powerful persuasion tool—an argument that dates back to the 4th century B.C.E. (Aristotle, Rhetoric). Yet, expressing...
View ArticleCitizen Juror: Justice Sotomayor and Steve Susman Discuss Why Jury Duty Matters
Flip on the television, open the laptop or sit down around most dinner tables across the country these days, and it seems clear that we are experiencing interesting times. Americans are gravitating to...
View ArticleMaking It Moral: How Morality Can Harden Attitudes and Make Them More...
Here's one of those litigation advocacy secrets that we need to keep just between us.
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