2008 Mid-Year Meeting
Conference on Evidence
The Future of Evidence: How Science and Technology Are Changing Evidence Law
June 3 – 6, 2008
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio
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Why Attend?
The adoption of the Federal Rules of Evidence in 1975 not only stabilized evidence law doctrine, it rendered this doctrine more homogenous across jurisdictions. Since then, the Rules have been largely resistant to significant change; and there is a solid body of rule-based law that, along with the text of the Rules themselves, makes up the basic subject matter of most evidence courses across the country.
But the “winds of change” may be blowing more forcefully today than at any time since the great debates over codification at the start of the 20th century. This Conference – The Future of Evidence: How Science and Technology Are Changing Evidence Law - highlights, through its panels and speakers, the major forces for change in evidence law today. Some of these forces implicate specific areas, such as expert witnesses. Others may more fundamentally call into question the basic assumptions underlying the Rules and the practices in courts today. The goal for this Conference is to provide all participants with an overview and some in-depth examination of these forces for change, with an eye toward understanding the context within which we practice our discipline and which our students will face tomorrow.
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