How courts are like children

Besides courts, two other much-studied populations who have trouble handling opacity are children under the age of four to six and older children with diagnoses on the autism spectrum.

—Jill Anderson, “Misreading Like a Lawyer: Cognitive Bias in Statutory Interpretation”, Harvard Law Review, forthcoming (draft on SSRN)

Hat tip: Rick Hasen

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