Temple Advocacy Scholarship

This article discusses the increasing potential significance of foreign and international sources in effective advocacy, and the corresponding need to adjust legal education to include such sources.

This article discusses whether the attorney-client privilege should authorize disclosure of communications that would establish actual innocence of a third party.

This article explores provides an instructive taxonomy for developing the advocacy technique of taking a problem and (re)framing it in terms that reflect favorably upon the speaker or the particular point of view she wishes to advocate.

In this book review, Professor Laura Little advocates for greater understanding of emotion theory for full development of advocacy and adjudication expertise.

This article explores the role of emotion in adjudication and therefore informs the effect use of emotion in advocacy. Emotions explored include: empathy and sympathy; loyalty and gratitude; jealousy and envy; and disgust and hate.

This article explores the importance of the Greek concept of ethos in crafting a successful argument.

This article analyzes whether cross-examination, a tool designed to expose lying witnesses, is a viable mechanism for uncovering mistaken witness testimony.

This article addresses what ethical constraints may apply when examining young [vulnerable] child witnesses.

This article examines whether the courtroom has been and can be successful in policing the mis-use of forensic discipline testimony and proof.