Document Type
Review
Publication Date
1998
Abstract
Let me state my biases at the start. I am a great fan of Professor Damaska and have been ever since I read his first book, The Faces of Justice and State Authority. Professor Damaska's most recent book, Evidence Law Adrift, adds to my admiration. In Evidence Law Adrift Professor Dama~ka examines Continental and Anglo-American trial procedures and argues that changes in the way Anglo-American courts resolve cases, especially the marginalization of the jury trial, strip common law evidence doctrine of its theoretical base and place it in danger of becoming an intellectual curiosity confined, in Professor Damaska's words, "to an oubliette in the castle of justice."' One does not have to agree with all of Professor Damaska's analysis to share his sense that the classic common law trial and the rules and procedures integral to it are at a point of crisis.
Recommended Citation
Lempert, Richard O. "Damaška: Evidence Law Adrift. A Book Review." Review of Evidence Law Adrift, Hastings Law Journal 49, no. 2 (1998): 397-401.
Comments
Reproduced with permission.