1st Edition
Teaching Evidence Law Contemporary Trends and Innovations
Teaching Evidence Law sets out the contemporary experiences of evidence teachers in a range of common law countries across four continents: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. It addresses key themes and places these in the context of academic literature on the teaching of evidence, proof and fact-finding.
This book focuses on the methods used to teach a mix of abstract and practical rules, as well as the underlying skills of fact-analysis, that students need to apply the law in practice, to research it in the future and to debate its appropriateness. The chapters describe innovative ways of overcoming the many challenges of this field, addressing the expanding fields of evidence law, how to reach and accommodate new audiences with an interest in evidence, and the tools devised to meet old and new pedagogical problems in this area.
Part of Routledge’s series on Legal Pedagogy, this book will be of great interest to academics, post-graduate students, teachers and researchers of evidence law, as well as those with a wider interest in legal pedagogy or legal practice.
Acknowledgements
FOREWORD
William Twining
INTRODUCTION
Taking Evidence Teaching Seriously
Yvonne Daly, Jeremy Gans and PJ Schwikkard
PART ONE: NEW TOOLS
Chapter 1
Learning Evidence with an Uncasebook
Deborah Merritt and Ric Simmons
Chapter 2
Teaching Evidence Law in a Flipped Classroom
Peter Sankoff
Chapter 3
Using True Crime to Teach Evidence
Jeremy Gans
Chapter 4
Using Mock Voir Dires to Assess the Law of Evidence
Yvonne Daly
Chapter 5
Using Deductive Reasoning to Teach the Application of a Heightened Relevance Standard to Sexual History Evidence
Elisabeth McDonald
Chapter 6
Using International Criminal Law to Teach Evidence
John Jackson and Yvonne McDermott
PART TWO: NEW AUDIENCES
Chapter 7 The Influences of Decolonisation on an Evidence Curriculum
PJ Schwikkard
Chapter 8
Undergraduate Learning in Evidence: Complexities, Challenges and Opportunities
Liz Heffernan
Chapter 9
Bridging the Law and Forensic Science Divide
Carole McCartney & John Cassella
Chapter 10
Teaching Evidence Law in Hong Kong after 1997
Simon N.M. Young
PART THREE: NEW FIELDS
Chapter 11
A Blended Learning Approach to Teaching Electronic Evidence
Lee Swales and Adrian Bellengère
Chapter 12
Introducing Science and Technology Studies into the Expert Evidence Course
David S. Caudill
Chapter 13
Teaching Legal Ethics in a Course on Evidence
Salona Lutchman
CONCLUSION
The Horizon of Evidence Law Teaching
Yvonne Daly, Jeremy Gans and PJ Schwikkard
Biography
Yvonne Daly is Associate Professor of Law at Dublin City University, Ireland.
Jeremy Gans is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
PJ Schwikkard is Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.