Hello, World

Last month, I published my first book, "The Legal Mind: How the Law Thinks." (Amazon.) The Legal Mind explains in plain English how the law figures out facts and sets rules. These are fascinating topics, but where is the right place for a blog to begin?

I struggled with where to start, and then I saw this:

(Via @rickygervais)

Our ability to perceive events and then describe what we perceived is far more limited than most of us realize. This problem is most acute with eyewitness testimony.

The challenge of dealing with eyewitness testimony in the legal system is discussed at length in The Legal Mind, but a picture is worth a thousand words, and that's as good a place to start a blog as any.