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Evidence and the Advocate: A Contextual Approach to Learning Evidence (2012)

Evidence and the Advocate: A Contextual Approach to Learning Evidence (2012)

Christopher W. Behan, Assistant Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University School of Law


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    Evidence and the Advocate teaches each rule of evidence using a three pronged approach: (1) a treatise-like explanation of the rule, its purposes, exceptions and foundations; (2) cases, discussion questions and hypothetical problems related to the rule; and (3) an application section in which the students must prepare a courtroom exercise putting the rule into action. This approach forms a teaching template for each rule of evidence.

    Each application exercise stands alone and has been designed to illuminate the rule being taught. The application exercises range from simple form-of-question drills to full-fledged evidentiary hearings. Some require minimal preparation, and others require significant out-of-class research and preparation. In the exercises, students serve as attorneys, witnesses, judges, and, in the more involved exercises, as a court of appeals. The exercises build on each other. The initial exercises focus on fundamental advocacy skills such as conducting a direct examination or laying the foundation for an exhibit. Later exercises incorporate these foundational skills for more complicated tasks such as writing a motion, impeaching a witness, or conducting a Daubert hearing on the reliability of expert testimony.

    This book also is available in a heavily discounted, three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.

     

    Christopher W. Behan


    Prior to joining the faculty at the SIU School of Law, Professor Behan served on active duty with the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps for nearly eleven years. His most recent assignment was Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he taught evidence, military criminal law, and trial advocacy to attorneys from all United States military services and many allied militaries. During his military career, he also served as a legal assistance attorney, military prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, administrative law attorney, international and operational law attorney, and legal advisor to U.S. forces in the Sinai Desert as part of the Multinational Force and Observers.

     

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