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Teaching Rape: Some Reflections On Pedagogy, Michelle Dempsey
Teaching Rape: Some Reflections On Pedagogy, Michelle Dempsey
Michelle Madden Dempsey
This short essay, which discusses the difficulties of teaching sexual offences, was written for the Oxford Law Society and published in the student run magazine, The Verdict, in Trinity Term 2007.
Establishing Separate Criminal And Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski
Establishing Separate Criminal And Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski
John J. Capowski
This article suggests that the Federal Rules of Evidence (Rules) should be separated into distinct criminal and civil evidence codes. The arguments for this separation are both practical and theoretical, and this article is the first comprehensive discussion of this proposed separation.
The most important of the arguments for bifurcation is that our current unified evidence code leads to inappropriate admission decisions. These inappropriate admission decisions most often occur when the interpretation of a rule in a criminal case is applied in later civil law cases. This result is in part because our rules, and their interpretations, are transubstantive; they …