Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Jill Warren (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Foreign LLM
Procedure and Practice
Time: 6:00p-7:30p TTH Location:
Course Outline: The rules of evidence, federal and state, and reasons supporting them, including relevance, competency of witnesses, privileges, hearsay, impeachment, and judicial notice. Film clips and classroom exercises will be included.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Synchronous Online) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. Contrary to the UH information, some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. A physical classroom may be assigned for this course to give students a location in the Law Center to join the virtual class sessions. If the course has a final examination, the final and any other assessment for the course, such as a mid-term exam, will be conducted without the need to physically come to the Law Center, such as, for example, via the EBB portal as a take home exam or under remote proctoring.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 05/06/20256-9pm
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: Critical (MBE & MEE)
DistanceEd ABA: Yes
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Rent or buy Deborah J. Merritt and Ric Simmons, Learning Evidence: From the Federal Rules to the Courtroom (5th ed. 2022) (ISBN 9781684675784). This includes access to the recommended CasebookPlus Learning Library. If you purchase a used book, instead, you may still purchase access to the CasebookPlus Learning Library at westacademic.com. The cost is $50 and the ISBN for the Learning Library alone is 9781636594453. Use discount code WAHOUSTON for a 15% discount.
PLEASE NOTE: the discount code above does not apply to the Learning Library alone; the discount will apply to the casebook purchase.
