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Evidence
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ArticleVol. 102 · Iss. 1
Criminal Recordkeeping
Business managers must create and keep records for decision-making. Yet doing so presents an obvious problem for those who manage illegal businesses: their records…
Andrew K. Jennings -
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When to Admit Art as Evidence
Jeffery Lamar Williams, better known as Young Thug, is the latest high-profile rapper to have his rap “lyrics” potentially entered into evidence as part…
Andrew Jensen Kerr -
ArticleVol. 100 · Iss. 2
House Rules: Congress and the Attorney-Client Privilege
Abstract In 2020, the Supreme Court rendered a landmark decision in Trump v. Mazars establishing four factors for determining the validity of congressional subpoenas…
David Rapallo -
ArticleVol. 100 · Iss. 2
Past-Acts Evidence in Excessive Force Litigation
Abstract Myriad obstacles prevent victims of police violence from vindicating civil claims against the officers who have harmed them and the cities which have…
James Stone -
ArticleVol. 87 · Iss. 1
The Next Innocence Project: Shaken Baby Syndrome and the Criminal Courts
Every year in this country, hundreds of people are convicted of having shaken a baby, most often to death. In a prosecution paradigm without…
Deborah Tuerkheimer -
CommentaryVol. 96 · Iss. 5
Who Wrote This?: Modern Forensic Authorship Analysis as a Model for Valid Forensic Science
Law needs forensic science in order to assist judges and juries in accurate fact-finding. But law also needs a dependable way to distinguish between…
Janet Ainsworth & Patrick Juola -
NoteVol. 96 · Iss. 5
Confronting Forfeiture
Phil Parhamovich was pulled over on I-80 in Wyoming. He had changed lanes improperly, and his seat belt was not fastened. Seven hundred seventy-five…
Joshua Katz -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 1
Law and the Epistemology of Disagreements
This Article identifies a discrepancy between law and epistemology and proposes a way to fix it. Our legal system relies on decisions of multimember…
Alex Stein -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 1
Balancing the Conspiracy’s Books: Inter-Competitor Sales and Price-Fixing Cartels
Price fixing is antithetical to a free-market economy. Competitive markets supply goods and services to consumers at the lowest efficient prices. Unfortunately, many businesses…
Christopher R. Leslie -
CommentaryVol. 93 · Iss. 4
Bill Cosby, the Lustful Disposition Exception, and the Doctrine of Chances
On December 30, 2015, an affidavit of probable cause alleged that William H. Cosby, Jr., Ed.D., a comedian whose storied career spanned decades, committed…
Wesley M. Oliver -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Event Studies in Securities Litigation: Low Power, Confounding Effects, and Bias
An event study is a statistical method for determining whether some event—such as the announcement of earnings or the announcement of a proposed merger—is…
Alon Brav & J. B. Heaton -
CommentaryVol. 92 · Iss. 6
Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.: McDonnell Douglas to the Rescue?
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 can be interpreted in two obvious ways: one interpretation requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees,…
William R. Corbett