Associate Dean of Students; Professor of Law and Val Nolan Faculty Fellow​
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Books
TRIAL OBJECTIONS HANDBOOK (with Park and Miller), 5th ed., Thompson Reuters, 2022.
EVIDENCE LAW, A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE LAW OF EVIDENCE AS APPLIED IN AMERICAN TRIALS, 5th ed. (with Roger C. Park and Dale A. Nance). St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2021.
ACING EVIDENCE, 3rd ed.. West Academic: 2021.
TRIAL OBJECTIONS HANDBOOK, 4th Ed. (with Park and Miller). Eagan, MN: West Law Group, 2020.
EVIDENCE LAW, A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE LAW OF EVIDENCE AS APPLIED IN AMERICAN TRIALS, 4th ed. (with Roger C. Park, Dale A. Nance, and Steven H. Goldberg). St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2018.
TRIAL OBJECTIONS HANDBOOK, 3rd ed. (with Roger C. Park). Eagan, MN: West Law Group, Forthcoming 2017.
ACING EVIDENCE: CHECKLIST APPROACH TO SOLVING EVIDENCE PROBLEMS, 2nd ed. St. Paul: West Academic Publishing, 2016.
FAT CHANCE. New Orleans: Quid Pro Books, 2016.
ACING EVIDENCE: CHECKLIST APPROACH TO SOLVING EVIDENCE PROBLEMS. St. Paul: West Academic Publishing, 2014.
EVIDENCE LAW, A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE LAW OF EVIDENCE AS APPLIED IN AMERICAN TRIALS, 3rd ed. (with Roger C. Park, David P. Leonard, and Steven Goldberg). Eagan, MN: West Law School, 2011.
THE ETHICS OF CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATION: ADVOCACY, RESPECT FOR PARENTS, AND THE RIGHT TO AN OPEN FUTURE. Bloomington, IN: Poynter Center, 2006.
Articles
Debunked, Discredited, but Still Defended: Why Prosecutors Resist Challenges to Bad Science and Some Suggestions for Crafting Remedies for Wrongful Conviction Based on Changed Science, 48 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 1139 (2018). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Forfeiture of Confrontation Rights and the Complicated Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Some Thoughts Inspired by Myrna Raeder, 44 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 466 (2015). [HeinOnline]
The Seductive Power of Patriarchal Stories 58 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 411 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Empirical Fallacies of Evidence Law: A Critical Look at the Admission of Prior Sex Crimes (with Tamara Rice Lave), 81 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW 795 (2013). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Once We Were Slaves, Now We Are Free: Legal, Administrative, and Social Issues Raised by Passover Celebrations in Prison 41 PEPPERDINE LAW REVIEW 61 (2013). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Friends, Gangbangers, Custody Disputants, Lend Me Your Passwords, 31 MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 185 (2012). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Facing the Unfaceable: Dealing with Prosecutorial Denial in Postconviction Cases of Actual Innocence, 48 SAN DIEGO LAW REVIEW 401 (2011). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Her Last Words: Dying Declarations and Modern Confrontation Jurisprudence, 2010 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 1411 (2010). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Honoring Margaret Berger with a Sensible Idea: Insisting that Judges Employ a Balancing Test before Admitting the Accused’s Convictions Under Federal Rule of Evidence 609(a)(2), 75 BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW 1291 (2010). [HeinOnline]
Sex, Threats, and Absent Victims: The Lessons of Regina v. Bedingfield for Modern Confrontation and Domestic Violence Cases, 79 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 115 (2010). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Propensity or Stereotype?: A Misguided Evidence Experiment in Indian Country, 19 CORNELL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 173 (2009). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Children As Witness: A Symposium on Child Competence and the Accused's Right to Confront Child Witnesses, 82 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 909 (2007). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Special Issues Raised By Rape Trials, in Ethics and Evidence Symposium, 76 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1585 (2007). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Deviance, Due Process, and the False Promise of Federal Rule of Evidence 403, 90 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 1487 (2005). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Civility in Litigation: How Can the Profession Promote and Enforce Good Behavior? (with Torrence Lewis), 1 INDIANA CIVIL LITIGATION LAW REVIEW 77 (2004). [SSRN]
What We Say We Do on Review, What We Actually Do on Review, Why They Are So Dissimilar, and How We Manage Not to Notice, 2 LAW, PROBABILITY & RISK 269 (2003). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Apology Excepted: Incorporating a Feminist Analysis into Evidence Policy Where You'd Least Expect It, 28 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 221 (1999). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
No Bad Men!: A Feminist Analysis of Character Evidence in Rape Trials, 49 HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 663 (1998). [HeinOnline]
Evidence in a Different Voice: Some Thoughts on Professor Jonakait’s Critique of a Feminist Approach, 4 WILLIAM & MARY JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND THE LAW 295 (1997). [HeinOnline]
“My God!”: A Feminist Critique of the Excited Utterance Exception to the Hearsay Rule, 85 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 159 (1997). [HeinOnline]
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 (with Edward R. Becker), 60 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 857 (1992). Reprinted in 142 FEDERAL RULES DECISION 519. [HeinOnline]
Is the Evidence All In? (with Edward R. Becker), 78 ABA JOURNAL 82 (Oct. 1992). [HeinOnline]
Note. Presidential Immunity from Civil Liability, 68 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 236 (1983). [HeinOnine]
Book Chapters
Supporting the Presumption of Innocence and Addressing Systemic Racism: A Concrete Proposal for Reforming Evidence Law to Prohibit Impeaching Criminal Defendants with their Prior Crimes, in THE MUSIC OF DEMOCRACY (Yvonne Cripps, ed.), University of Rochester Press, forthcoming 2023.
Stewart Huff, P.I., Intellectual at Large (with Susan Seizer), in TAKING A STAND: CONTEMPORARY US STAND-UP COMEDIANS AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS (Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze, eds.), University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Presuming Guilt or Protecting Victims?: Analyzing the Special Treatment of Those Accused of Rape, in RACE TO INJUSTICE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE DUKE LACROSSE RAPE CASE (Michael L. Seigel, Ed.) Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009.
Evidence and Feminism,[SSRN] in FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE, WOMEN AND THE LAW: CRITICAL ESSAYS, RESEARCH AGENDA, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. (B. Taylor, et. al. Eds.) Littleton, CO: Rothman,1999.