ABSTRACT
More and more lawyers are using digital technologies, including PowerPoint, computer animations, trial presentation software such as Sanction II and Trial Director, and digital video, to create and display evidence and arguments. Those digital visual and multimedia technologies are affecting first-order legal knowledge, what decision makers believe about the matters before them, may be easier to explain. The claim at this point is simply that the more that legal decision makers and observers are exposed to digital multimedia in court, the likelier they are to believe that trials can yield knowledge of case-relevant matters. Digital photography and video is now commonplace, but digitization is also making possible interactive, three-dimensional visual representations. The implication for legal theory is that anyone interested in the production of legal knowledge today, how beliefs are formed and judgments made in individual cases and in general, ought to study techniques of digital multimedia representation.
