Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson is a teaching professor of Law at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He studies the ethics of using narrative and visual rhetoric in legal persuasion and how judges make decisions and express them in writing.
When special counsel Jack Smith announced the charges he was bringing against former President Donald Trump for retaining government documents, he did something unusual: He invited the public to read the formal legal document, known as an indictment, detailing the allegations. And many did – concluding not only that the indictment was well-written but engaging. […]
