Technology and the Law

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Studying Juror Expectations for Scientific Evidence: A New Model for Looking at the CSI Myth (with Gregg Barak and Young S. Kim), Court Review (2011)

This article reviews the results of two empirical studies of large groups of Michigan jurors...

 

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How reason for surgery and patient weight affect verdicts and perceptions in medical malpractice trials: A comparison of students and jurors (with Jenny Reichert, Monica K. Miller, and Brian H. Bornstein), Behavioral Sciences & The Law (2011)

Jurors' decision-making processes are often influenced by extra-legal factors, including judgments of defendants and plaintiffs....

 

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Forensic Science Evidence and Judicial Bias in Criminal Cases, The Judges' Journal, American Bar Association (2010)

Although DNA exonerations and the NAS report have raised serious questions about the validity of...

 

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Juror Expectations for Scientific Evidence in Criminal Cases: Perceptions and Reality About the "CSI Effect" Myth, Thomas M. Cooley Law Review (2010)

This article originated from the author's presentation at the 2010 Cooley Law School Symposium on...

 

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An Indirect-Effects Model of Mediated Adjudication: The CSI Myth, the Tech Effect, and Metropolitan Jurors' Expectations for Scientific Evidence (with Young S. Kim and Gregg Barak), Vanderbilt Journal of Enterntainment & Technology Law (2009)

Part I of this article defines the "CSI effect", given that the phrase has come...

 

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Examining the "CSI-effect" in the cases of circumstantial evidence and eyewitness testimony: Multivariate and path analyses (with Young S. Kim and Gregg Barak), Journal of Criminal Justice (2009)

As part of a larger investigation of the changing nature of juror behavior in the...

 

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Twenty-First Century Forensic Science Challenges for Trial Judges in Criminal Cases: Where the "Polybutadiene" Meets the "Bitumen", Widener Law Journal (2009)

This artice discusses the challenges faced by trial judges in crimnal cases in fulfilling their...

 

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The "CSI Effect": Does It Really Exist?, National Institute of Justice Journal (2008)

Based on recent empirical jury studies, jurors have increased expectations that prosecutors will present scientific...

 

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A Study of Juror Expectations and Demands Concerning Scientific Evidence: Does the “CSI Effect” Exist? (with Gregg Barak and Young S. Kim), Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (2007)

Many prosecutors, judges and journalists have claimed that watching television shows like CSI have caused...

 

CSI Effect, Battleground: Criminal Justice (2007)
 

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Technology, Popular Culture and the Court System - Strange Bedfellows?, National Center for State Courts 2006 Future Trends in State Courts (2006)

The technological revolution is now part of our popular culture and that popular culture is...

 

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Video Court Reporting - The Time Has Come, Judges' Journal (2003)

Urges judges to adopt video court reporting systems to improve accuracy, efficiency, and thrift.

 

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All Aboard? Electronic Filing and the Digital Divide, American Bar Association Judge's Journal (2001)

There still exists a large part of our population that is not connected to the...

 

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Teaching Technology to Judges, American Bar Association Judge's Journal (2001)

As our courts move at an ever-increasing pace to digitize information and indeed, to move...

 

Title IX

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Equally Bad is Not Good: Allowing Title IX “Compliance” by the Elimination of Men’s Collegiate Sports, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2001)

Athletic participation is an important part of the educational process, instilling important lessons about discipline...

 

Criminal Justice

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Studying Juror Expectations for Scientific Evidence: A New Model for Looking at the CSI Myth (with Gregg Barak and Young S. Kim), Court Review (2011)

This article reviews the results of two empirical studies of large groups of Michigan jurors...

 

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Forensic Science Evidence and Judicial Bias in Criminal Cases, The Judges' Journal, American Bar Association (2010)

Although DNA exonerations and the NAS report have raised serious questions about the validity of...

 

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Juror Expectations for Scientific Evidence in Criminal Cases: Perceptions and Reality About the "CSI Effect" Myth, Thomas M. Cooley Law Review (2010)

This article originated from the author's presentation at the 2010 Cooley Law School Symposium on...

 

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An Indirect-Effects Model of Mediated Adjudication: The CSI Myth, the Tech Effect, and Metropolitan Jurors' Expectations for Scientific Evidence (with Young S. Kim and Gregg Barak), Vanderbilt Journal of Enterntainment & Technology Law (2009)

Part I of this article defines the "CSI effect", given that the phrase has come...

 

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Examining the "CSI-effect" in the cases of circumstantial evidence and eyewitness testimony: Multivariate and path analyses (with Young S. Kim and Gregg Barak), Journal of Criminal Justice (2009)

As part of a larger investigation of the changing nature of juror behavior in the...

 

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The Admissibility of Social Science Evidence in Criminal Cases (2009)

The rapid development of emerging scientific methods, especially the increased understanding of deoxyribonucleic acid ("DNA"),...

 

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Twenty-First Century Forensic Science Challenges for Trial Judges in Criminal Cases: Where the "Polybutadiene" Meets the "Bitumen", Widener Law Journal (2009)

This artice discusses the challenges faced by trial judges in crimnal cases in fulfilling their...

 

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The "CSI Effect": Does It Really Exist?, National Institute of Justice Journal (2008)

Based on recent empirical jury studies, jurors have increased expectations that prosecutors will present scientific...

 

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The Current State of Domestic Violence Courts in the United States, 2007, National Center for State Courts White Paper (2007)

This is an effort to collect, update and catalogue a list of specialized domestic violence...

 

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A Database of Persons Convicted of Felonies in Washtenaw County, Michigan, 1990-2007 (2007)

This study is a database of information from Washtenaw County, Michigan, court records of approximately...

 

Juvenile Justice

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An Evaluation of the Status Offense Diversion Program in the Juvenile Court of Washtenaw County (2007)

The Washtenaw Juvenile Court Status Offense Diversion Program was implemented in 2002 to provide effective...

 

Forensic Science

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Studying Juror Expectations for Scientific Evidence: A New Model for Looking at the CSI Myth (with Gregg Barak and Young S. Kim), Court Review (2011)

This article reviews the results of two empirical studies of large groups of Michigan jurors...

 

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Forensic Science in Court: Challenges in the Twenty First Century (Issues in Crime and Justice) (2010)

Forensic Science in Court explores the legal implications of forensic science—an increasingly important and complex...

 

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Forensic Science Evidence and Judicial Bias in Criminal Cases, The Judges' Journal, American Bar Association (2010)

Although DNA exonerations and the NAS report have raised serious questions about the validity of...

 

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Juror Expectations for Scientific Evidence in Criminal Cases: Perceptions and Reality About the "CSI Effect" Myth, Thomas M. Cooley Law Review (2010)

This article originated from the author's presentation at the 2010 Cooley Law School Symposium on...

 

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An Indirect-Effects Model of Mediated Adjudication: The CSI Myth, the Tech Effect, and Metropolitan Jurors' Expectations for Scientific Evidence (with Young S. Kim and Gregg Barak), Vanderbilt Journal of Enterntainment & Technology Law (2009)

Part I of this article defines the "CSI effect", given that the phrase has come...

 

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Examining the "CSI-effect" in the cases of circumstantial evidence and eyewitness testimony: Multivariate and path analyses (with Young S. Kim and Gregg Barak), Journal of Criminal Justice (2009)

As part of a larger investigation of the changing nature of juror behavior in the...

 

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The Admissibility of Social Science Evidence in Criminal Cases (2009)

The rapid development of emerging scientific methods, especially the increased understanding of deoxyribonucleic acid ("DNA"),...

 

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Twenty-First Century Forensic Science Challenges for Trial Judges in Criminal Cases: Where the "Polybutadiene" Meets the "Bitumen", Widener Law Journal (2009)

This artice discusses the challenges faced by trial judges in crimnal cases in fulfilling their...

 

Jury Research

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Studying Juror Expectations for Scientific Evidence: A New Model for Looking at the CSI Myth (with Gregg Barak and Young S. Kim), Court Review (2011)

This article reviews the results of two empirical studies of large groups of Michigan jurors...

 

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How reason for surgery and patient weight affect verdicts and perceptions in medical malpractice trials: A comparison of students and jurors (with Jenny Reichert, Monica K. Miller, and Brian H. Bornstein), Behavioral Sciences & The Law (2011)

Jurors' decision-making processes are often influenced by extra-legal factors, including judgments of defendants and plaintiffs....