Evidence: Teaching Materials for an Age of Science and Statutes - Hardcover

Carlson, Ronald L.; Imwinkelried, Edward J.; Seaman, Julie; Beecher-monas, Erica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 153100296X ISBN 13: 9781531002961

Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr, 2018

Synopsis

Judge Calabresi has pointed out that this is the Age of Statutes, and some commentators have asserted that trial by jury is becoming trial by expert. Therefore, competent attorneys must be adept at working with scientific material and at interpreting statutes. The Eighth Edition of this casebook enables students to learn how to use materials generated by scientific researchers and to develop statutory interpretation skills. The authors emphasize scientific problems, with repeated references to Daubert and its progeny. Evidentiary doctrine coverage is reduced, to allow for deeper treatment of the science behind much of the evidence presented in modern trials. Throughout the text, the Eighth Edition stresses statutory construction skills, and at appropriate points it discusses the contrast between the textualist and legal process schools of legisprudence, all while bringing students up to date on significant recent developments such as the 2017 amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence and the 2016 forensic science report of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

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About the Author

Ronald L. Carlson is Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus at University of Georgia School of Law. Edward Imwinkelried is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of California at Davis School of Law. Julie Seaman is Professor of Law at at Emory University School of Law. Erica Beecher-Monas is Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 153100296X
• ISBN 13: 9781531002961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 971