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Cost-Benefit Analysis, Unintended Consequences, And Evidentiary Policy: A Critique And A Rethinking Of The Application Of A Single Set Of Evidence Rules To Civil And Criminal Cases, Myrna S. Raeder May 1998

Cost-Benefit Analysis, Unintended Consequences, And Evidentiary Policy: A Critique And A Rethinking Of The Application Of A Single Set Of Evidence Rules To Civil And Criminal Cases, Myrna S. Raeder

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Substantial Assistance And Sentence Severity: Is There A Correlation Substantial Assistance, Ian Weinstein Jan 1998

Substantial Assistance And Sentence Severity: Is There A Correlation Substantial Assistance, Ian Weinstein

Faculty Scholarship

How much more severe are sentences imposed in districts with low substantial assistance rates than those in which the rate is very high? In the aggregate, not at all. At first blush this may puzzle readers because substantial assistance (SA) departures are very unevenly distributed across districts and SA accounts for nearly two-thirds of all downward departures, almost 7,900 of the 12,000 in fiscal 1996. Although this pattern could result in gross disparities among districts, my analysis of inter-district sentencing patterns reveals no statistically significant correlation between the rate of SA departures and the average length of sentences imposed in …


The American Adversarial System In Criminal Cases: Between Ideology And Reality, Johannes F. Nijboer Apr 1997

The American Adversarial System In Criminal Cases: Between Ideology And Reality, Johannes F. Nijboer

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The article critically examines the adversarial system in American criminal cases, contrasting it with the inquisitorial system prevalent in many European countries. It argues that while the adversarial system remains a defining feature of U.S. criminal procedure, the inquisitorial system, as a historical concept, no longer exists in its traditional form. The analysis emphasizes the need for nuanced comparative legal scholarship to avoid oversimplification and highlights the cultural and historical contexts shaping these procedural systems.


Answering The Bayesioskeptical Challenge, Richard D. Friedman Jan 1997

Answering The Bayesioskeptical Challenge, Richard D. Friedman

Articles

In recent years, some scholars of evidence, myself among them, have made active use of subjective probability theory - what is sometimes referred to as Bayesianism - in thinking about issues and problems related to the law of evidence. But, at the same time, this use has been challenged to various degrees and in various ways by scholars to whom I shall apply the collective, if somewhat misleading, label of Bayesioskeptics. I present this brief paper to defend this use of probability theory, and to discuss what I believe is its proper role in discourse about evidentiary issues.


Towards A (Bayesian) Convergence?, Richard D. Friedman Jan 1997

Towards A (Bayesian) Convergence?, Richard D. Friedman

Articles

If I understand them correctly, several leading Bayesioskeptics (Allen, Callen, Stein) acknowledge - with varying degrees of specificity and varying degrees of grudgingness - that standard probability theory can be useful as an analytical tool in considering evidentiary doctrines and the probative value of evidentiary items.


Pragmatism And Realism, Hilary Putnam Sep 1996

Pragmatism And Realism, Hilary Putnam

Cardozo Law Review

Let me begin by asking what will undoubtedly seem to many, if not all of you, a most peculiar question: How did it happen that the first philosopher to present a completely worked out version of direct realism in the entire history of modem philosophy was none other than the American pragmatist, William James?


That's My Story And I'M Stickin' To It: The Jury As Fifth Business In The Trial Of O.J. Simpson And Other Matters, Marianne Wesson Jan 1996

That's My Story And I'M Stickin' To It: The Jury As Fifth Business In The Trial Of O.J. Simpson And Other Matters, Marianne Wesson

Publications

No abstract provided.


Classical Rhetoric, Practical Reasoning, And The Law Of Evidence , Eileen A. Scallen Jan 1995

Classical Rhetoric, Practical Reasoning, And The Law Of Evidence , Eileen A. Scallen

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Daubert On The Admissibility Of Scientific Evidence: The Supreme Court Catches Up With A Decade Of Jurisprudence, Arvin Maskin Apr 1994

The Impact Of Daubert On The Admissibility Of Scientific Evidence: The Supreme Court Catches Up With A Decade Of Jurisprudence, Arvin Maskin

Cardozo Law Review

Over the past several years a host of new civil damage theories has emerged, notably in the mass tort area. These include claims for increased risk of disease, fear of disease, hedonic damages, immunotoxicity, and medical surveillance. In the great majority of these cases, the dispositive issue reduces to causation, which invariably turns upon scientific evidence. Moreover, the stakes in these cases have greatly escalated. For example, the $180 million settlement in the Agent Orange case seemed like a lot of money in 1984, until several years later when the Dalkon Shield litigation, which involved the sale of a single …


Doctor Duxbury’S Cure: Or, A Note On Legal Historiography, Peter Goodrich Mar 1994

Doctor Duxbury’S Cure: Or, A Note On Legal Historiography, Peter Goodrich

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Faith In Reason: The Process Tradition In American Jurisprudence, Neil Duxbury Dec 1993

Faith In Reason: The Process Tradition In American Jurisprudence, Neil Duxbury

Cardozo Law Review

Even the most cursory survey of the history of jurisprudence reveals a remarkable tendency on the part of legal philosophers to develop concepts, for want of a better word, which are purportedly foundational to the existence of a legal system. Positivists and natural lawyers alike have long been committed to the search for that special concept which stands as the fons et origo of law. Legal philosophers typically frame this search in terms of a quest to discover something singular; and when they do try to conceive of a legal system as founded on a plurality of concepts, their assertions, …


Grammarians At The Gate: The Rehnquist Court's Evolving Plain Meaning Approach To Bankruptcy Jurisprudence, Walter Effross Jan 1993

Grammarians At The Gate: The Rehnquist Court's Evolving Plain Meaning Approach To Bankruptcy Jurisprudence, Walter Effross

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.


Post-Modern Hearsay Reform: The Importance Of Complexity, Christopher B. Mueller Jan 1992

Post-Modern Hearsay Reform: The Importance Of Complexity, Christopher B. Mueller

Publications

No abstract provided.


The Federal Rules Of Evidence After Sixteen Years -- The Effect Of "Plain Meaning" Jurisprudence, The Need For An Advisory Committee On The Rules Of Evidence, And Suggestions For Selective Revision Of The Rules, Aviva A. Orenstein, Edward R. Becker Jan 1992

The Federal Rules Of Evidence After Sixteen Years -- The Effect Of "Plain Meaning" Jurisprudence, The Need For An Advisory Committee On The Rules Of Evidence, And Suggestions For Selective Revision Of The Rules, Aviva A. Orenstein, Edward R. Becker

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Testing Right - Lying In View Of Justice, Peter Fenves Dec 1991

Testing Right - Lying In View Of Justice, Peter Fenves

Cardozo Law Review

Walter Benjamin: Justice, Right and the Critique of Violence


The Violence Of Contamination And The Violence Of The Pure, Arkady Plotnitsky Dec 1991

The Violence Of Contamination And The Violence Of The Pure, Arkady Plotnitsky

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Decision And Inference, Peter Tillers Nov 1991

Decision And Inference, Peter Tillers

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Nature Of Juridicial Proof, Ronald J. Allen Nov 1991

The Nature Of Juridicial Proof, Ronald J. Allen

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Refocusing The New Evidence Scholarship, Terence J. Anderson Nov 1991

Refocusing The New Evidence Scholarship, Terence J. Anderson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Amendments, William E. Hellerstein Jan 1991

Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Amendments, William E. Hellerstein

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Re-Examining Hearsay Under The Federal Rules: Some Method For The Madness, Paul S. Milich Jan 1991

Re-Examining Hearsay Under The Federal Rules: Some Method For The Madness, Paul S. Milich

Faculty Publications By Year

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The Exclusionary Rule And Confession Evidence: Some Perspectives On Evolving Practices And Policies In The United States And England And Wales, Mark Berger Jan 1991

The Exclusionary Rule And Confession Evidence: Some Perspectives On Evolving Practices And Policies In The United States And England And Wales, Mark Berger

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Search And Seizure Jan 1991

Search And Seizure

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Due Process Jan 1991

Due Process

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Professor Weinrib's Coherence, Alan Brudner Feb 1990

Professor Weinrib's Coherence, Alan Brudner

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Policing Discovery Under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 219(C): A Search For Judicial Consistency, Kathleen M. Potocki Jan 1990

Policing Discovery Under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 219(C): A Search For Judicial Consistency, Kathleen M. Potocki

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Form And Function In The Administration Of Justice: The Bill Of Rights And Federal Habeas Corpus, Larry Yackle Jan 1990

Form And Function In The Administration Of Justice: The Bill Of Rights And Federal Habeas Corpus, Larry Yackle

Faculty Scholarship

Part I critiques the Report's insistence that accurate fact finding exhausts, or nearly exhausts, the objectives of criminal justice, identifies the fundamental role of the Bill of Rights in the American political order, and situates federal habeas corpus within that framework. Part II traces the Report's historical review of the federal habeas jurisdiction and critiques the Report's too-convenient reliance on selected materials that, on examination, fail to undermine conventional understandings of the writ's development as a postconviction remedy. Part III responds to the Report's complaints regarding current habeas corpus practice and refutes contentions that the habeas jurisdiction overburdens federal dockets …


Where To Draw The Guideline: Factoring The Fruits Of Illegal Searches Into Sentencing Guidelines Calculations, Cheryl G. Bader, David S. Douglas Jan 1990

Where To Draw The Guideline: Factoring The Fruits Of Illegal Searches Into Sentencing Guidelines Calculations, Cheryl G. Bader, David S. Douglas

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Bracton, The Year Books, And The "Transformation Of Elementary Legal Ideas" In The Early Common Law, David J. Seipp Jan 1989

Bracton, The Year Books, And The "Transformation Of Elementary Legal Ideas" In The Early Common Law, David J. Seipp

Faculty Scholarship

The language of the common law has a life and a logic of its own, resilient through eight centuries of unceasing talk. Basic terms of the lawyer's specialized vocabulary, elementary conceptual distinctions, and modes of argument, which all go to make “thinking like a lawyer” possible, have proved remarkably durable in the literature of the common law. Two fundamental distinctions—between “real” and “personal” actions and between “possessory” and “proprietary” remedies—can be traced back to their early use in treatises of the first generations of professional common law judges and in reports of courtroom dialogue from the first generations of professional …


Arizona V. Youngblood: Does The Criminal Defendant Lose His Right To Due Process When The State Loses Exculpatory Evidence?, Willis C. Moore Jan 1989

Arizona V. Youngblood: Does The Criminal Defendant Lose His Right To Due Process When The State Loses Exculpatory Evidence?, Willis C. Moore

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.