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Excited Utterance162 Lisa Kern GriffinThe Limits and Costs of Cross-Examination. Lisa Kern Griffin from Duke University considers the costs of our excessive devotion to and dependence on cross-examination as our chief mechanism for ensuring accuracy in factfinding.2025-02-2400 minExcited Utterance162 Lisa Kern GriffinThe Limits and Costs of Cross-Examination. Lisa Kern Griffin from Duke University considers the costs of our excessive devotion to and dependence on cross-examination as our chief mechanism for ensuring accuracy in factfinding.2025-02-2400 min
The Real StoryWhat do Trump’s legal challenges mean for the 2024 US election?This week Donald Trump appeared at a federal court in Miami and pleaded not guilty to historic charges relating to his alleged mishandling of sensitive documents. Trump is the most high-profile person ever to face criminal charges under the Espionage Act. It's also the first time that a current or former US president has been charged with a federal crime. Leading Republicans dismiss it as a political prosecution, but some legal experts insist the indictment sets out a strong case. Mr Trump remains the frontrunner to become the Republican nominee in next year's presidential election, but at least ten...2023-06-1649 min
UVA LawA Look at ‘The Proof’Duke University law professor Lisa Kern Griffin, UVA Law lecturer and U.S. Judge Jed S. Rakoff, and Professor Gregory Mitchell discuss Professor Frederick Schauer’s book, “The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else.” Professor Charles Barzun ’05 moderated, and Dean Risa Goluboff introduced the panelists. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 8, 2022)2022-09-201h 06
Oral ArgumentEpisode 112: Quasi-NarrativeIs legal writing narrative? How about judgments, appeals, testimony? We talk with Simon Stern about narrative and its techniques and effects, suspense, dicta, authorial purposes, a crazy idea for a novel, mathematical proofs, and more.
This show’s links:
Simon Stern’s faculty profile and writing
Simon Stern, Narrative in the Legal Text: Judicial Opinions and Their Narratives
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book II: Of the Rights of Thing (Simon Stern, ed.); Simon’s introduction to the volume
William Brewer and Edward Lichtenstein, Event Schemas, Story Schemas, and Story Grammars
About the Parado...2016-09-231h 12Oral ArgumentEpisode 107: Unleash the JoeA special live-to-tape dig through the mailbag.
This show’s links:
Christian’s Modern American Legal Theory audio downloads (paste this into your podcast app: http://www.hydratext.com/malt2016?format=rss)
Episodes relevant to driverless cars: No Drones in the Park (guest Frank Pasquale and Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo)
Jonathan Masur’s episode: All over the Gander
SustainAtlanta
Oral Argument 74: Minimum Curiosity (guest Amanda Frost)
More Perfect (a side project of Radiolab)
Oral Argument 77: Jackasses Are People Too (guest Adama Kolber)
Oral Argument 44: Serial
Sarah Koenig, Judge Orderns New Trial for Adnan Syed (containing a link a...2016-08-131h 19Oral ArgumentEpisode 69: Contaminated EvidenceBrandon Garrett is one of the leading scholars on the problem of getting it wrong in criminal cases. Eyewitnesses who believe they know what they do not know, suspects who confess to crimes they did not commit, and the actually guilty parties who go free when convict the innocent: why and how does this happen?
This show’s links:
Brandon Garrett’s faculty profile, author page, and writing
Hold Up!, the (probably) one-off movie podcast we recorded
Oral Argument 44: Serial
Brandon Garrett, The Banality of Wrongful Executions
Brandon Garrett, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wron...2015-07-311h 05Oral ArgumentEpisode 48: Legal TruthWith evidence and criminal procedure scholar Lisa Kern Griffin, we discuss the role of narrative, storytelling, and probability in assessing guilt and innocence. Also, feedback on coffee, citation, librarians, and argument.
This show’s links:
Lisa Kern Griffin’s faculty profile and writing
Sonja West, First Amendment Neighbors, citing Joe Miller, Christian Turner, and Sonja West, Oral Argument 1: Send Joe to Prison at 46:53, available at http://oralargument.org/1
Bunny’s coffee-roasting links: the Nesco Professional 800-watt Roaster, Green Coffee Buying Club, and information from Sweet Maria’s; Listener Zachary’s links: the Fresh Roast Plus 8 and White Moun...2015-01-301h 23