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Race, Rules, And Disregarded Reality, Marsha Griggs
Race, Rules, And Disregarded Reality, Marsha Griggs
All Faculty Scholarship
Exploring issues of racial bias and social injustice in the law school classroom is a modern imperative. Yet, important conversations about systemic inequality in the law and legal profession are too often dissociated from core doctrinal courses and woodenly siloed to the periphery of the curriculum. This dissociation creates a paradigm of irrelevancy-by-omission that disregards the realities of the lived experiences of our students and the clients they will ultimately serve. Using Evidence as a launch pad, Professor Deborah Merritt has paved a pathway to incorporate these disregarded realities in doctrinal teaching. This important pathway leads to safe spaces necessary …
Evidence? Or Emotional Fuel?, Robert E. Precht
Evidence? Or Emotional Fuel?, Robert E. Precht
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
The following excerpt is from Defending Mohammad: Justice on Trial (Cornell University Press, 2003), by Robert E. Precht, and appears here with permission of Cornell University Press. The excerpt is from Chapter 8, "Relevance and Prejudice." The book is based on the author's experience as public defender for Mohammad Salameh, the lead suspect in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Standards Of Evidence In Administrative Proceedings, William H. Kuenhle
Standards Of Evidence In Administrative Proceedings, William H. Kuenhle
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
"X-Spurt" Witnesses, Richard H. Underwood
"X-Spurt" Witnesses, Richard H. Underwood
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In this article the author pulls together a history of expert witnesses in common law systems. Various issues are explored regarding expert witness testimony, including: the historical underpinnings of the practice, how Daubert controls that issue in modern times, rules of evidence, psychological science, and professional ethics.
A Brief Look At New York's Efforts To Codify Its Law Of Evidence, Barbara C. Salken
A Brief Look At New York's Efforts To Codify Its Law Of Evidence, Barbara C. Salken
Touro Law Review
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Preparation Of The Multistate Bar Examination: One Drafting Committee's Perspective, John W. Reed
Preparation Of The Multistate Bar Examination: One Drafting Committee's Perspective, John W. Reed
Articles
One who wants to know how the Multistate Bar Examination is created should begin by learning how the drafting committees work. My assignment is to describe the work of one of those committees: the Evidence Committee. Though there are differences among the six committees, they mostly are ones of style, and to learn how to operate in the evidence group is to understand the process generally.
Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege - New Emphasis On The Lawyer's Need To Know: Upjohn Co. V. United States, Michael J. Viscount Jr.
Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege - New Emphasis On The Lawyer's Need To Know: Upjohn Co. V. United States, Michael J. Viscount Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
In seeking the advice of legal counsel, the corporation may, out of necessity, communicate through its representatives confidential secrets about its conduct in business. As is the case with individuals, it is well settled that a corporation may avail itself of the evidentiary privilege which allows concealment of such confidential communications. This so-called attorney-client privilege is the oldest of the privileges for confidential communications known to the common law. However, its application in the corporate context has been quite unpredictable for the past twenty years.
The Attorney-Client Privilege: A Look At Its Effect On The Corporate Client And The Corporate Executive, E. Elizabeth Perlman
The Attorney-Client Privilege: A Look At Its Effect On The Corporate Client And The Corporate Executive, E. Elizabeth Perlman
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.