Evidence: A Context and Practice Casebook - Hardcover

Wonsowicz, Pavel

 
9781531022655: Evidence: A Context and Practice Casebook
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1531022650 ISBN 13: 9781531022655
Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr, 2022

Synopsis

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This casebook is designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles and to explore evidence law from the eyes of an advocate. Through a problem-centered approach that focuses on the gray areas of the Federal Rules of Evidence, students will develop a heightened sensitivity to factual and legal arguments that govern the admissibility of evidence. This focus on legal argumentation allows students to actively cultivate an understanding of the legal doctrine behind the Federal Rules of Evidence as well as the role that facts and narrative play in legal reasoning. Exercises, visual aids, and video supplements in each chapter allow students to assess their learning.

A thread that runs through the book is video and case materials surrounding a North Carolina murder trial, State v. Peterson. The trial was memorialized in an award-winning documentary, The Staircase, directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The casebook follows the trial, including the strategies undertaken by counsel and the battles over evidentiary issues that shaped both sides' narratives in the trial. Video excerpts will be provided to the instructor to add a further dimension to student learning and to reach a broad array of learning styles.

The new third edition provides yet another video to enhance student understanding—a scripted film of a mock trial that provides context for the most nuanced issues in the FRE. This edition is designed to make it easy for professors to incorporate best practices into their classes in order to train students to be self-directed, successful learners.

This book is part of the Context and Practice Series, edited by Michael Hunter Schwartz, Professor of Law and Dean of the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.

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About the Author

Pavel Wonsowicz is Director of the Academic Support Program and Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law.

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Publisher
Carolina Academic Pr
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1531022650
ISBN 13 
9781531022655
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
3
Number of pages
653