Abstract
American law has long expressed preferences regarding its own presentation. This article explores those aesthetic preferences in the context of legal research tools. This article applies four aesthetics that appear across American law—The Grid, Energy, Perspectivist, and Dissociative Aesthetics—to traditional tools of legal research, which predominately reflect the Grid Aesthetic. Then this article engages in a conceptual evaluation of a new legal research tool within Lexis+, Ravel View, which is an exemplar of the Energy Aesthetic. This analysis explores the assumptions built into the presentation of the law and how to bridge the visual language divide in legal research.
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