My first long-form interview guest for Law and Legitimacy is one of America's great trial lawyers, R. Rex Parris. 

Rex is also a mayor, the founder of a biotech company, and an environmental activist.  

My main question to Rex: what do you see in a courtroom? His answers will surprise you. 

Rex has spent several decades mastering cognitive sciences, treating the courtroom and the city council chamber alike as a laboratory. He shares some basic insights into how ou