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Credibility
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Credibility and Ethos in Persuasion
By Capital Center for Law & Policy
By: Adrienne Brungess Credibility and Ethos in Persuasion [audio mp3="https://capitalcenter.lawschoolblogplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/408/2017/10/Brungess-Persuasive-Value-of-Credibility.mp3"][/audio] In this In Practice podcast, I talk about ways advocates can bolster the ethos of their arguments, that is,…
EvidenceProf Blog
Article of Interest: Julia Simon-Kerr’s “Credibility by Proxy”
By Colin Miller
Back in November 2014, Julia Simon-Kerr, an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, did a series of guest posts on this blog (see here). Those posts were…
Drug & Device Law
A Lesson in What Losing Credibility Can Cost
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog. Everybody lies, maybe even several times a day. Often we don’t even realize it because the lies are small.…
The Faculty Lounge
Should We Ever Believe the Police?
In fact checking Alice Goffman’s On the Run, I sometimes referred to police reports and interviews with members of the Philadelphia police department (as did Paul Campos in his recent…
EvidenceProf Blog
Credibility Proxies: Drugs
By Colin Miller
One remaining category of crime that has a long history as a credibility proxy is drug offenses. These offenses, like speeding, fall at the boundary between crimes of impulse (violent…
EvidenceProf Blog
Credibility Proxies: Speeding
By Colin Miller
In light of the taxonomy of credibility proxies outlined in the previous posts in this series, one might predict that speeding and other traffic violations would not be admissible as…
EvidenceProf Blog
Credibility Proxies: Prostitution
By Colin Miller
In the previous few posts, we’ve learned that theft and violence generally get different treatment when offered as credibility proxies. For reasons that remain somewhat foggy, theft is relevant to…
EvidenceProf Blog
Credibility Proxies: Introduction
By Colin Miller
Hello All! I’m very happy to be joining you for some fall blogging, beginning with an intro to the subject of credibility proxies. The need to judge credibility is both inevitable…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Isn’t it the goal of every law student to become Internet famous?
I don't think so. A law student or a young lawyer can take to the Internet and make a name for themselves and build a few relationships along the way…
Illinois Workers Compensation Law Blog
Five reasons you’ll lose your workers’ compensation case
By Mike Helfand
Based on our experience, here are some circumstances that are difficult to overcome in a workers’ compensation case. Not always impossible, but difficult. You lack credibility. Credibility is arguably one…