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Digging Into The Foundations Of Evidence Law, David H. Kaye
Digging Into The Foundations Of Evidence Law, David H. Kaye
Michigan Law Review
Review of The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law by Michael J. Saks and Barbara A. Spellman.
The Crime Lab In The Age Of The Genetic Panopticon, Brandon L. Garrett
The Crime Lab In The Age Of The Genetic Panopticon, Brandon L. Garrett
Michigan Law Review
Review of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado, Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA by Erin E. Murphy, and Cops in Lab Coats: Curbing Wrongful Convictions Through Independent Forensic Laboratories by Sandra Guerra Thompson.
Same Old, Same Old: Scientific Evidence Past And Present, Edward K. Cheng
Same Old, Same Old: Scientific Evidence Past And Present, Edward K. Cheng
Michigan Law Review
For over twenty years, and particularly since the Supreme Court's Daubert decision in 1993, much ink has been spilled debating the problem of scientific evidence in the courts. Are jurors or, in the alternative, judges qualified to assess scientific reliability? Do courts really need to be concerned about "junk science"? What mechanisms can promote better decision making in scientific cases? Even a cursory scan of the literature shows the recent explosion of interest in these issues, precipitating new treatises, hundreds of articles, and countless conferences for judges, practitioners, and academics. To this literature, Professor Tal Golan adds Laws of Men …
Wigmore On Evidence-A Review, John E. Tracy
Wigmore On Evidence-A Review, John E. Tracy
Michigan Law Review
In 1887 John Henry Wigmore graduated from Harvard Law School. Only four years later, in 1891, there came from his pen an article in the Harvard Law Review entitled "Nemo Tenetur Seipsum Prodere," which showed to the profession that there had arrived at the bar a writer who was not only a deep student of legal history and knew his law of evidence, but who had no hesitation in smashing images, regardless of how sacredly they had theretofore been worshiped.
The Nature Of Proof, Thomas E. Atkinson, Raymond H. Wheeler
The Nature Of Proof, Thomas E. Atkinson, Raymond H. Wheeler
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL PROOF. By John Henry Wigmore.