Trial Advocacy Board
Recommended Summer Resources
I. Highly Recommended Summer Resources
a. Observe at least one jury trial
b. Thomas A. Mauet, Trials (Aspen Publishers, 2005)
ISBN: 0735551030 / 9780735551039
c. At least one of the following:i. Charles B Gibbons, A Student’s Guide to Trial Objections (Thomson/West, 2007)
ISBN: 0314146474 / 9780314146472
ii. Steven Goode & Olin Guy Wellborn III, Courtroom Evidence Handbook (Thomson/West, 2007)
ISBN: 0314179852 / 9780314179852
iii. Another equivalent book of your choosing (which contains examples of objections and responses)d. Professor James Duane, Doing What Comes Naturally: A New Paradigm for Recognizing Leading Questions. (Contact Brandon if you have not received this already)
e. Professor James Duane, Arresting Officers and Treating Physicians: When May a Witness Testify to What Others Told Him for the Purpose of Explaining His Conduct? (Contact Brandon if you have not received this already)
f. Federal Rules of Evidence (Read all the rules – you do not need to read the notes/comments at this time – you can pick up a small evidence book from the Lexis or Westlaw stations in the law library, or for the time being read the rules at http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/)
g. Watch at least one of the following:i. Irving Younger, Mastering the Art of Cross Examination (video)
Regent Law Library: KF8920.M27.1986 (Only the first five discs in the series required)
ii. Larry Pozner & Richard Dodd, Advanced Cross-Examination Techniques (video)
Regent Law Library: KF8920.P68.2007 (four discs)
II. Additional Recommended Resources:
a. Michael Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell, and Ben Bycel, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments in Modern Law (1998).
ISBN: 0684859483 / 9780684859484
b. The Science of Cross Examination with Terence F. MacCarthy (video)
Regent Law Library: KF8920.M332.1992
c. David Ball, Theater Tips and Strategies for Jury Trials (National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 3rd ed. 2003).
ISBN: 1556817797 / 9781556817793
d. Rhetoric speech, Professor James Duane (1 hour, 45 minutes).
Available at http://media.regent.edu/schlaw/rhetorichigh.wmv
e. Some of the greatest political speeches of all time:
Available at http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
f. Irving Younger, Basic Concepts in the Law of Evidence (video)
Regent Law Library: KF8935.Y68.1982
