Scripting Expertise: The History of Handwriting Identification Evidence and the Judicial Construction of Reliability

Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...

This casebook aspires to help students understand and think systematically about the techniques of statutory interpretation. It blends exposition with...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

How should judges decide hard cases involving rights conflicts? Standard debates about this question are usually framed in jurisprudential terms...

Berryessa et al. (2022) consider how prior experience as a criminal prosecutor may influence judicial behaviour, but their concerns about prior...

Forensic evidence has become a common tool in police investigations and a familiar form of evidence at trial. Forensic scientists are trained to...

A federal grand jury in Florida indicted former President Donald Trump on June 8, 2023, on multiple criminal charges related to classified documents...

In our increasingly polarized society, claims that prosecutions are politically motivated, racially motivated, or just plain arbitrary are more common...

The lawyer-client relationship is pivotal in providing access to courts. This paper presents results from a large-scale field experiment exploring how...

William Blackstone famously expressed the view that convicting the innocent constitutes a much more serious error than acquitting the guilty. This...

Perhaps the most surprising feature of the last Supreme Court term was the extraordinary public discourse on 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. According to...

This Essay was prepared for a Symposium at the Yale Law School, celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of The Nature of the Judicial Process, the...

Legal ethicists, advocacy groups, and politicians have called for greater restrictions on the use of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) when parties...

In our last column, we explored different ways of incorporating quotes into legal writing. And although the whole point of quoting is to use another...

In the age of fake news, trust and truth are hard to come by. Blatantly and shamelessly, public figures deceive us by abusing what sounds like...

Lawyers often have to rely on others’ words — words written by legislatures, courts, or parties to a contract. But improper use or overuse of quotes...

The success of forensic science depends heavily on human reasoning abilities. Although we typically navigate our lives well using those abilities...