Legal Commentary

Flying back to Miami last weekend on JetBlue, I watched (for likely a time in triple digits) A Few Good Men. And it struck me how great the trial scenes are for demonstrating a host of Evidence issues (rightly or wrongly) and that I want to this as a teaching tool.

Several Evidence books and materials use clips from this film (and others). But I am thinking of something more--watching the entire trial and evidence sequences and stopping the video at points to ask for comments about what they are doing at that point and whether it is admissible or permissible or not. The problem is that doing this would take up at least 1 1/2 class periods--and I already cannot get through everything on the Syllabus. So I am thinking of doing an end-of-semester Movie Night (or weekend day) at the end of the semester. If nothing else, it also serves as a review session for a big chunk of material. And it could be a nice class tradition.

Something to think about for next fall.