Article
The Precarious Art of Classifying Facts
73 Duke Law Journal Online 191-197
Abstract
In their terrific new article, Fact Stripping, Joseph Blocher and Brandon Garrett bring formidable expertise from their respective fields to tackle the inscrutable puzzle of appellate fact review.
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In this short reply I will add to Blocher and Garrett’s illuminating work by exploring a foundational confusion their article exposes. I will first explain why classifying facts as either suitable for trial or not is a very fraught endeavor; I will then argue that this difficulty allows for significant manipulation and the risk of unprincipled application. Finally, I will nod to prior work and forecast future work where I explore re-thinking the labels we currently use altogether.
This abstract has been adapted from the author's introduction.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2024
Disciplines
Citation Information
Allison Orr Larsen. "The Precarious Art of Classifying Facts" 73 Duke Law Journal Online 191-197 (2024) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/allisonorr_larsen/40/