Full Description
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.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: Taking Evidence Teaching Seriously. PART ONE: NEW TOOLS. 1. Learning Evidence with an Uncasebook. 2. Teaching Evidence Law in a Flipped Classroom. 3. Using True Crime to Teach Evidence. 4. Using Mock Voir Dires to Assess the Law of Evidence. 5. Using Deductive Reasoning to Teach the Application of a Heightened Relevance Standard to Sexual History Evidence. 6. Using International Criminal Law to Teach Evidence. PART TWO: NEW AUDIENCES. 7. The Influences of Decolonisation on an Evidence Curriculum. 8. Undergraduate Learning in Evidence: Complexities, Challenges and Opportunities. 9. Bridging the Law and Forensic Science Divide. 10. Teaching Evidence Law in Hong Kong after 1997. PART THREE: NEW FIELDS. 11. A Blended Learning Approach to Teaching Electronic Evidence. 12. Introducing Science and Technology Studies into the Expert Evidence Course. 13. Teaching Legal Ethics in a Course on Evidence. CONCLUSION: The Horizon of Evidence Law Teaching
