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A Textualist Response to Two Texts: Positive-Law Codification and Interpreting Section 1983

textualist values. Textualists espouse formalism, and codified positive-law text is formally “legal evidence of the law”—meaning the codified positive-law

Jill Lepore

about whether scientific evidence is admissible in court to illustrate how the law renders historical evidence invisible. Frye v. United States established o…

Rebecca Steele

access evidence. This Note analyzes pathways criminal defendants can pursue to access evidence within the current statutory framework and argues that the statute is ...

Lisa Marshall

The Yale Law Journal - Lisa Marshall Lisa Marshall Note 114 Yale L.J. 1063 (2005) Disregarding the dictates of Federal Rule of Evidence 404

Zack Bray

The Yale Law Journal - Zack Bray Zack Bray Comment 113 Yale L.J. 1143 (2004) Today, application of the exclusionary rule to evidence obtained in

Forum: Separation of Drug Scheduling Powers

behind other countries in adopting evidence-based drug policies, it leads the wealthiest nations in fatal overdoses. Under current scheduling practices

Forum: Noticing Genocide

never be disputed in any ICTR proceeding, the notice will prevent all further testimony and evidence of the genocide—in effect truncating the judicial

Forum: Hall v. Florida and Ending the Death Penalty for Severely Mentally Ill Defendants

had an IQ of above 70 points, then his attorneys were prohibited from presenting any evidence of his intellectual disability. This created a system

Elizabeth Napier Dewar

remedy for criminal defendants when the government fails to fulfill its constitutional duty to disclose favorable evidence. When evidence that should

Forum: Implementing Aggregation in Law: The Median Outcome Rule

preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, and distortion of litigants’ incentives. This Essay does not seek to contribute to the debate over whether, and