Educational? You Be The Judge.

Last year, we wrote about retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor entering a new field: video game development. She’s spearheading a project called Our Courts, which seeks to improve civic education in middle schools. The Our Courts website officially launched in January of this year.

The first two games, “Supreme Decision” and “Do I Have A Right?”, went live this summer. The Washington Post contacted us and asked us to review them. We played Nintendo, Oregon Trail, and Carmen Sandiego growing up, and we spent a recent Friday night at Elie’s playing Rock Band, so we were willing to give the Our Courts game a go.

Check out our review of the games, along with additional reflections on civic education and public access to the courts, in this Washington Post piece: Educational? You Be the Judge.

Lat will talk you through the games (and our piece) in this video: Gaming the (Judicial) System.

Educational? You Be the Judge. [Washington Post]

Earlier: Sandra Day Gets Her Game On
Jon Stewart Goes ‘Behind the Robes’ of Sandra Day
An Update on Sandra Day and ‘Our Courts’

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