In this episode, Andrew Jensen Kerr, Lecturer of Legal English and Assistant Director for the Language Center at Georgetown University Law Center, discusses his article "The Perfect Opinion," which will be published in the Washington University Jurisprudence Review. Kerr begins by describing the literature evaluating the quality of judicial opinions. He explains how his methodology differs from that of other scholars, by providing an analytic approach to the aesthetics of judicial opinions. He observes that, among other things, judges tend to prefer opinions with few or no citations. And he reflects on what that can tell us about the relationship between aesthetics and the judicial enterprise. Kerr's scholarship is available on SSRN.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.

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