Episodes

  • 178 Susan Provenzano & Sarah Brown-Schmidt

    178 Susan Provenzano & Sarah Brown-Schmidt
    Apr 27 2026
    The Overlooked Witness Memory Risk. Sue Provenzano from Georgia State University and Sarah Brown-Schmidt from Vanderbilt University discuss the problem of “hear-witnesses,” witnesses who report about what was previously said, and how evidence law does not adequately account for their accuracy risks.
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  • 177 Kay Levine

    177 Kay Levine
    Apr 14 2026
    Opinion Surveys Across the Civil-Criminal Divide. Kay Levine from Emory University discusses the uses of opinion survey evidence, how its admissibility is inconsistent between civil and criminal contexts, and perhaps why the divide exists.
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  • 176 Mary Fan

    176 Mary Fan
    Mar 30 2026
    AI-Enhanced Evidence Law. Mary Fan from the University of Washington discusses the challenges of AI-enhanced evidence in the courtroom, how to ensure its reliability, and concerns about disparities between prosecution-offered and defense-offered AI-enhanced evidence.
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  • 175 Rebecca Wexler

    175 Rebecca Wexler
    Mar 16 2026
    Law Enforcement Privilege. Rebecca Wexler from Columbia Law School discusses the privilege governing police investigative methods, the reasons for the privilege, as well as its costs to transparency and the ability to regulate police conduct in accord with the Fourth Amendment.
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  • 174 Edith Beerdsen

    174 Edith Beerdsen
    Mar 2 2026
    Strategy for Strategy's Sake. Edith Beerdsen from Temple University asks whether strategic or "sporting" behavior has any place in a system of legal proof, and when being clever goes too far.
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  • 173 Asees Bhasin & Jasmine Gonzales Rose

    173 Asees Bhasin & Jasmine Gonzales Rose
    Feb 16 2026
    Antiracist Expert Evidence. Asess Bhasin from the University of Maryland and Jasmine Gonzales Rose from Boston University discuss the ways in which expert evidence can address racism and racial discrimination in our system of evidence and proof.
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  • 172 Laura Savarese

    172 Laura Savarese
    Feb 2 2026
    Children and the Making of Modern Evidence Law. Laura Savarese from Michigan State University discusses the role of children’s testimony and nineteenth-century child protection laws in the development of the law of evidence.
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  • 171 Alfred Yen

    171 Alfred Yen
    Nov 3 2025
    The Evidentiary Use and Misuse of Forensic Musicology in Copyright Litigation. Fred Yen from Boston College discusses the use of musicology experts in copyright litigation and what they should and should not be permitted to testify about.
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