This Article examines the advantages and disadvantages of using display technology to teach law. Display technology is computer-generated images and text used to supplement visually what the professor is saying verbally in class. Modern law students come from an age dominated by visual images—computers, the Internet, television, blockbuster films, pervasive advertising, etc.—but law school is taught largely the same way it has been for over one hundred years, with a professor standing at a podium and asking only verbal questions to a large class of students. Many law schools are adapting their physical classrooms to accommodate the use of display technology, but law professors in general lag behind society and other education professionals in using display technology to teach. Also, legal educators are generally falling behind the legal profession itself. Modern trial lawyers regularly use display technology, such as computer animations, videotaped depositions, and PowerPoint presentations, to “teach” and persuade juries, judges, and colleagues in a very effective way.

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