Justice Scalia on the art of persuasion Supreme Court groupies will be glad to know that Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court has given a lengthy interview in which he talks about his new book, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, which he wrote with Bryan Garner. The program, aired May 4, 2008, can be found here. 60 min. transcript available here.

How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law Washington College of Law (American University) has posted podcasts of their November 2, 2007 conference on legal rhetoric. .mp3, no transcript. Some of the parts are inaudible. Not for the fainthearted! James Boyd White - When Language Meets the Mind (1:40); panels on narrative (1:22), metaphor (1:29), archetypes (1:32)

Going to Harvard Law School So you have always dreamed of going to Harvard Law? Now you can do it via the Internet. Professor Charles Nesson and Rebecca Nesson are offering a course online, "Cyber One: Law in the Court of Public Opinion. The subject matter of the course is the creation and delivery of persuasive argument in the new integrated media space constituted by the Internet and other new technologies." You can find the videos here. Does this distance learning work? Try it out while it's hot!