Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Katherine Brem (CLINICAL FACULTY [405(b)])
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Procedure and Practice
Time: 6:00p-7:30p TTH Location: 102B
Course Outline: This course aims to provide you with a working knowledge of both the Federal and Texas Rules of Evidence. Texas, like most states, has adopted a set of evidence rules based on the federal rules, so we will discuss the Texas rules only insofar as they significantly differ from the federal rules.
The rules of evidence govern the introduction of all types of evidence, including testimonial, tangible, documentary, photographic demonstrative, and scientific. To fully comprehend these rules it is essential to study them in the context of litigation. We will therefore study the application of the rules through a series of problems interspersed throughout the course.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=50
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/2/2024 6-9 102B
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: Critical (MBE & MEE)
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Deborah J. Merritt and Ric Simmons, Learning Evidence: From the Federal Rules to the Courtroom (5th ed. 2022); ISBN- 9781684675784