Advanced Evidence (636-1)
Instructors
Daniel William Gillogly
630/729-4127
Office Hours: By arrangement with any of the Instructors
Meeting Info
Levy Mayer 108 - Wigmore: Wed 4:10PM - 6:00PM
Overview of class
The class will focus primarily on student participation, but there will be some lectures, discussions, and a number of guests who are experienced trial lawyers and judges.
Registration Requirements
Evidence (LITARB 606; LITARB 635) is a prereq
Learning Objectives
Students will enhance their: (1) knowledge of the rules of evidence, (2) ability to identify the evidentiary issues presented in the problems, and (3) oral and written advocacy on behalf of their clients.
Evaluation Method
As an experiential course, grading will be determined by students' improving participation as advocates and "judges" (65%) and the timeliness and quality of the written motions and memoranda (35%). No written examinations are contemplated.
Class Materials (Required)
Problem will be provided by the Instructor. No text book or treatise is assigned, but students will certainly profit from the variety of Evidence publications such as Professor Lubet's and Professor Lore's Modern Trial Advocacy (Fifth or Sixth editions); Mauet & Wolfson's Trial Evidence, 7th Edition (Wolters Kluwer); Judge Weinstein's Evidence Manual for Students; Evidence, (Christopher B. Mueller; and Laird C. Kirkpatrick); and Evidence A Context and Practice Casebook 2d Edition (Pavel Wonsowicz).
Class Notes
For most class sessions a two-student team will be assigned to represent each of the two opposing parties and litigate an evidentiary issue significant to the case. The teams will be given a fact scenario underlying a hypothetical case and an evidentiary issue that requires each team of student to identify the evidentiary issues and applicable rules, conduct research, prepare short written motions or memoranda, and make oral argument to the "court."
Class Attributes
Satisfies Experiential Learning degree req
Enrollment Requirements
Enrollment Requirements: Evidence is a pre-requisite for this course.
MSL Students are not eligible to enroll