Neal Feigenson joined the School of Law faculty in 1987. He teaches torts, evidence, visual persuasion in the law, and civil procedure. His research interests include the cognitive and social psychology of legal judgment and the uses of visual media and multimedia in legal communication and persuasion. Professor Feigenson's most recent book, Law on Display: The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment, written with Christina Spiesel, was published by NYU Press in 2009. Feigenson served as one of the two inaugural Carmen Tortora Professors of Law in 2008-11.

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These are some of my recent publications. For others, including works in press, please see my CV. I'll be happy to provide links to or reprints of any works not readily available; please e-mail me.

(2011) "The Juror and Courtroom of the Future” (with Christina Spiesel), in Jules Epstein & Carol Henderson (eds.), The Future of Evidence 113-36

(2010) “Audiovisual Communication and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Cognitive and Social Psychological Dimensions,” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 33, 336-340

(2010) “Visual Evidence,” Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17(2), 149-154

(2009) “Emotional Influences on Judgments of Legal Blame,” in R. Wiener & B. Bornstein (eds.), Emotion and the Law: Psychological Perspectives 45-96

(2009) “Brain Imaging and Courtroom Evidence: On the Admissibility and Persuasiveness of fMRI,” in M. Freeman & O. Goodenough (eds.), Law, Mind and Brain 23-54

(2007) “Thinking Beyond the Shown: Implicit Inferences in Evidence and Argument” (with Richard Sherwin), Law, Probability, and Risk, 6, 295-310

(2007) “Digitally Processed Images in Connecticut Courts After Swinton” (with Lisa Podolski), Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association Forum, 25(1), 33-41

(2006) “Law in the Digital Age: How Visual Communication Technologies are Transforming the Practice, Theory, and Teaching of Law” (with Richard Sherwin and Christina Spiesel), Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, 12, 227-270

(2006) “Emotions and Attributions of Legal Responsibility and Blame: A Research Review” (with Jaihyun Park), Law and Human Behavior, 30, 143-161

(2006) “Too Real? The Future of Virtual Reality Evidence,” Law and Policy, 28, 271-293

(2006) “The Jury Persuaded (and Not): Computer Animation in the Courtroom” (with Meghan A. Dunn and Peter Salovey), Law and Policy, 28, 228-248

My current projects include: "What It's Like: Demonstrative Simulations of Subjective Experience," an inquiry into computer-generated demonstrative illustrations and proof of parties' purely subjective perceptual experiences; "Effects of Demonstrative Evidence of Subjective Perceptions on Mock Juror Decision Making," an attempt to study experimentally the effects of simulations of subjectivity on legal decision making (with Jai Park and Sandi Souci); and “Visual Evidence and the Jury,” a chapter in a book-in-progress to be edited by David Tait et al., The Sydney Bomber: Juries, Science, and Popular Culture in an Age of Terrorism (with Greg Battye and Christina Spiesel).

Visual and multimedia digital technologies are transforming the practice of law: how lawyers construct and argue their cases, present evidence to juries, and communicate with each other. They are also changing how law is disseminated throughout and used by the general public. What are these technologies, how are they used and perceived in the courtroom and in wider culture, and how do they affect legal decision making? In this comprehensive survey and analysis of how new visual technologies are transforming both the practice and culture of American law, co-author Christina Spiesel and I explain how, when, and why legal practice moved from a largely words-only environment to one more dependent on and driven by images, and how rapidly developing technologies have further accelerated this change. We discuss older visual technologies, such as videotape evidence, and then current and future uses of visual and multimedia digital technologies, including trial presentation software and interactive multimedia. We also describe how law itself is going online, in the form of virtual courts, cyberjuries, and more, and explore the implications of law’s movement to computer screens. Throughout the book, we illustrate our analysis with examples from a wide range of actual trials. To learn more about the book and to order a copy, please visit www.lawondisplay.fromthesquare.org.

Carmen A. Tortora Professor of Law, 2008-11 (inaugural appointment); Outstanding Faculty Scholar, 2004 (inaugural award).

This is the first published experimental study of the effects of lawyers' use of PowerPoint on legal outcomes. Two studies explored the effects of lawyers’ use of PowerPoint on liability judgments in a case involving statistical evidence. Participants (Study 1, N = 192; Study 2A, N = 180; Study 2B, N = 189) watched videotaped opening statements for plaintiffs and defendant. In general, defendant’s responsibility was judged to be greater when plaintiffs used PowerPoint slides than when they did not and less when defendant used PowerPoint slides than when it did not. Furthermore, PowerPoint’s impact was greatest when its use was unequal. PowerPoint enhanced persuasion partly through central and partly through peripheral processing. In general, each party’s use of PowerPoint increased participants’ recall of that party’s evidence, which in turn increased defendant’s judged responsibility (when plaintiffs used PowerPoint) or reduced it (when defendants used PowerPoint), indicative of central processing. PowerPoint also functioned as a peripheral cue, influencing participants’ judgments of defendant’s responsibility by affecting their perceptions of the respective attorneys.