Law Practice,
Judges and Judiciary,
Appellate Practice
Feb. 1, 2022
Multiverse Cosplay
For over half a century, we have been enthralled by adventures of characters crossing into other versions of the “real world” as part of a dimensionally broader multiverse. For most people, this craving to experience divergent worlds can only be satisfied in fiction. But not for lawyers.
Benjamin G. Shatz
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Appellate Law (Certified), Litigation
Email: bshatz@manatt.com
Benjamin is a certified specialist in appellate law who co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group at Manatt in the firm's Los Angeles office. Exceptionally Appealing appears the first Tuesday of the month.
Much fascinating speculative fiction rests on the notion of parallel universes -- places similar to our own world but just different enough to be interesting. Possibly the earliest example, from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, is Frederic Brown's "What Mad Universe" (1949), in which a massive energy discharge shifts the protagonist to another dimension where the world is deceptively similar, but with significant alterations.
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