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Telling Tales In Court: Trial Procedure And The Story Model, Richard O. Lempert Nov 1991

Telling Tales In Court: Trial Procedure And The Story Model, Richard O. Lempert

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There are three ways in which stories may figure prominently at trials. First, litigants may tell stories to jurors. Not only is there some social science evidence that this happens, but trial lawyers have an instinctive sense that this is what they do. Ask a litigator to describe a current case and she is likely to reply, "Our story is ... " Second, jurors may try to make sense of the evidence they receive by fitting it to some story pattern. If so, the process is likely to feed back on itself. That is, jurors are likely to build a …


Some Caveats Concerning Dna As Criminal Identification Evidence: With Thanks To The Reverend Bayes, Richard O. Lempert Nov 1991

Some Caveats Concerning Dna As Criminal Identification Evidence: With Thanks To The Reverend Bayes, Richard O. Lempert

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The conference panel at which this paper was originally presented was structured along the lines of a debate. The three speakers who were supposed to advocate the use of DNA evidence were labeled, as is customary, Proponents. But those who were supposed to take the negative side were not called Opponents. Rather they were labeled Caveators. I do not know who is responsible for this label, but I think it gets things exactly right. To my mind anyone considering DNA as criminal identification evidence should be a Caveator. The promise and utility of DNA analysis in identifying the perpetrators of …


Compounding Or Creating Confusion About Supplemental Jurisdiction? A Reply To Professor Freer, Thomas D. Rowe Jr., Stephen B. Burbank, Thomas M. Mengler Oct 1991

Compounding Or Creating Confusion About Supplemental Jurisdiction? A Reply To Professor Freer, Thomas D. Rowe Jr., Stephen B. Burbank, Thomas M. Mengler

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The World In Our Courts, Stephen B. Burbank May 1991

The World In Our Courts, Stephen B. Burbank

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What Is Legal Therapy And What Is It Doing In The Curriculum - A View From Contracts, Robert Birmingham Jan 1991

What Is Legal Therapy And What Is It Doing In The Curriculum - A View From Contracts, Robert Birmingham

Faculty Articles and Papers

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The Politics Of Virtue: Animals, Theology, And Abortion, Elizabeth B. Boyer, Alan Freeman Jan 1991

The Politics Of Virtue: Animals, Theology, And Abortion, Elizabeth B. Boyer, Alan Freeman

Journal Articles

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Law School Rights: The Establishment Of New York Law School, 1891-1897, James A. Wooten Jan 1991

Law School Rights: The Establishment Of New York Law School, 1891-1897, James A. Wooten

Journal Articles

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Who Is An Impartial Juror In An Age Of Mass Media?, Fred H. Cate, Newton N. Minow Jan 1991

Who Is An Impartial Juror In An Age Of Mass Media?, Fred H. Cate, Newton N. Minow

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Great Repression: Criminal Punishment In The Nineteen-Eighties, Michael Mandel Jan 1991

The Great Repression: Criminal Punishment In The Nineteen-Eighties, Michael Mandel

Articles & Book Chapters

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Rewriting History: The Propriety Of Eradicating Prior Decisional Law Through Settlement And Vacatur, Jill E. Fisch Jan 1991

Rewriting History: The Propriety Of Eradicating Prior Decisional Law Through Settlement And Vacatur, Jill E. Fisch

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Book Review. Law's Patriarchy, Lynne N. Henderson Jan 1991

Book Review. Law's Patriarchy, Lynne N. Henderson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Better Than No Teeth At All?, John Henry Schlegel Jan 1991

Better Than No Teeth At All?, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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Start Making Sense: An Analysis And Proposal For Insider Trading Regulation, Jill E. Fisch Jan 1991

Start Making Sense: An Analysis And Proposal For Insider Trading Regulation, Jill E. Fisch

All Faculty Scholarship

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Frankenstein's Monster Hits The Campaign Trail: An Approach To Regulation Of Corporate Political Expenditures, Jill E. Fisch Jan 1991

Frankenstein's Monster Hits The Campaign Trail: An Approach To Regulation Of Corporate Political Expenditures, Jill E. Fisch

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Wellsprings Of Legal Responses To Inequality: A Perspective On Perspectives, Howard Lesnick Jan 1991

The Wellsprings Of Legal Responses To Inequality: A Perspective On Perspectives, Howard Lesnick

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A Coda On Supplemental Jurisdiction, Stephen B. Burbank, Thomas D. Rowe Jr., Thomas M. Mengler Jan 1991

A Coda On Supplemental Jurisdiction, Stephen B. Burbank, Thomas D. Rowe Jr., Thomas M. Mengler

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