The authors analyze how a confession can be made to appear believable even when DNA evidence exculpates the accused, and suggest reform approaches to reduce this risk.
The 2016 Edward D. Ohlbaum Annual Paper in Trial Advocacy Scholarship Award Winner.
This article reviews how cognitive science supports volunteering bad facts and law in legal advocacy.
This offers a bibliography of scholarship on persuasion in legal advocacy.
This article reviews the persuasive value of using the science of priming in legal advocacy.
This article explains the cognitive science showing that a reasonable tone in advocacy is more persuasive than aggression.
This article presents the results of empirical study showing complex and surprising effects of raising plaintiff’s prior conviction in civil trial.
This piece examines some of the advocacy techniques used by then-Associate Justice Rehnquist to advance his preferred understanding of the Fourth Amendment.
This article discusses how Supreme Court oral argument in a particular case influenced both the Court’s resolution of the case and Congress’s later use of it as a vehicle for major law reform.