I love that line! Yes, when you're a judge or a law professor, you have nothing to lose. Being a litigant is another thing.
Nonesense. Show me a lawsuit, and I'll show you one party who argues the law is complex and the opposing party who argues the law is plain and simple.
And then, the next week in a different case, the two lawyers will swap arguments about the law. The law is often badly written and TACTICALLY COMPLEX, but justice is almost always straightforward once you find out the facts.
And we ask 12 people, in both cases, WHO HAVE NO SPECIAL TRAINING IN THE LAW, to decide justice.