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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A cool find for evidence folks. For those who teach Dallas County, here is the actual newspaper clipping that Judge Wisdom (again, fantastic name) deemed admissible over a hearsay objection:

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very excited to add this Sidney Harris print to my office. Although, as I'm wading through the first draft of my next article, I do feel a bit like it's calling me out . . .

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How would you even prove that a juror isn't "following the law" in deliberations without violating Rule 606(b)? "A mistrial . . . is not to be avoided by intrusion into the jury's domain . . . [simply because of] an unreasonably stubborn or eccentric juror." 467 N.E.2d 1340 (Mass. 1984)

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very excited to be joining Ron Allen, Mike Pardo, and Deb Tuerkheimer as a new co-author on their excellent evidence casebook. Certainly, big shoes to fill (as Alex Stein and David Schwartz are rolling off), but I'm looking forward to the work.

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

With the new academic year beginning, it's time to re-post my favorite passage about law professors: In 1958, the great Judge Learned Hand, then in his 80s, ends a set of lectures at Harvard Law School with a reflection on his professors there in the 1890s. "Go ye and do likewise."

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Apropos of the discussion this weekend surrounding Pangram, AI, and legal scholarship, it seems to me that AI will require a fair amount of field-wide reflection on the precise areas where we value human provenance. (1/5)

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

There's nothing better than watching your kids fall in love with nature. Our national parks are worth fighting for, and need our support (now more than ever)!

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Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Had a great time at the biggest Evidence Summer Workshop yet! What an awesome scholarly community. Thanks my co-organizers Ed Cheng, @alexnunn.bsky.social, and Julia Simon-Kerr. #ESW

About 45 people in conference-appropriate attire stand on the steps of Vanderbilt Law School.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My genuine reaction when a student just told me he's been "lawmaxxing for finals"

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 13/04/2026

It's pencils down at the hackathon. I put 236 years of US copyright law into a git repository. Every Act of Congress from 1790 to today is a commit. Still some work to be done, and things got frantic at the end, but I'm proud of this! github.com/katelynsills...

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GitHub - katelynsills/copyright-history: Every amendment to US copyright law (1790-present) as a git commit. Browse 236 years of legislation with git log, git diff, and git checkout.

Every amendment to US copyright law (1790-present) as a git commit. Browse 236 years of legislation with git log, git diff, and git checkout. - katelynsills/copyright-history

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Incredibly indebted to Yoto Yokoyama (Tohoku Gakuin University) for his translation of Ed Cheng's and my Texas Law Review article, "Beyond the Witness: Bringing a Process Perspective to Modern Evidence Law." Yuto's translation was just published in the Hiroshima Law Journal. Many thanks!

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Very excited to see the sixth edition of the “Exculpatory Evidence” treatise now in print! Getting to work with Ed Imwinkelried on the project has been such a joy.

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Luke Norris @lukenorris.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Delighted that my paper with Myriam Gilles, Procedure’s Unmooring: How the Federal Rules Lost Their Way, will be coming out in the Penn Law Review. More soon!

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Laura Abelson @lauragabelson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I’m excited to share that my latest article, “The Multidimensions of AI Chatbots as Evidence,” is now forthcoming in the U.C. Davis Law Review. The abstract is below, and I plan to have it up on SSRN soon.

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Some profs are using AI to write articles. @mbkplus.bsky.social and I size up this worrisome trend and its impact on the academic enterprise. @mbkplus.bsky.social proposes granular disclosure rules whereas I foresee a world where AI will soon write articles and make the publishing decisions. Gulp.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

One fascinating trend in this data. In 1971 alone, the Supreme Court cited 138 student notes and comments in its opinions. But that number has dropped off dramatically, as the Court hasn't cited more than 10 in a single term since 1997.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A historical look at the Supreme Court's citations to scholarship. A marked increase in the 1960s that's endured at a steadily growing rate.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

At its zenith, Evidence was one of law’s most celebrated fields. Since the FRE’s codification, however, the field has fallen to dead last in citation rankings. But a remnant of its former glory remains, as Wigmore (#2) and Greenleaf (#7) *still* appear on a list of SCOTUS’s most cited scholarship.

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Sue Provenzano @sueprovo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'm honored to be publishing this piece with Vanderbilt Psych Prof Sarah Brown-Schmidt in volume 112 of the Virginia Law Review. In this empirical evidence law and cognitive science article, we identify the risks posed by "hear-witnesses" who inaccurately recall and recount statements at trial.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

There's been so much fantastic Evidence scholarship lately. Add this to the list!

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Nila Bala @nilabala.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Happy to share that Developmental Evidence Rules is forthcoming in the California Law Review! What would it mean to take childhood seriously in evidence law? This article takes up that question.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

What an incredible gift from a student! 😃

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I had an amazing time chatting with @aseesbhasin.bsky.social and Jasmine Gonzales Rose about their fantastic new article, "Antiracist Expert Evidence," which was recently published in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social. Listen below! excitedutterance.com/listen/2026/...

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173 Asees Bhasin & Jasmine Gonzales Rose — Excited Utterance

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Nila Bala @nilabala.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thrilled to share that 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 has found a home with the Yale Law Journal. This piece examines parental liability regimes and parental rights, and how they are connected by a shared logic that harms children and families. Thank you to all those who read drafts and offered feedback!

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It’s day 5 of being snowed in, and I’ve officially hit the “explain the character evidence prohibition” phase of trying anything and everything to keep my kids entertained. (And, in case you’re wondering, they think law students *always* have to keep their hands raised.)

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Texas’s highest court holds that the Confrontation Clause required witnesses to testify unmasked during the Covid pandemic so the jury could evaluate their demeanor and credibility. And so regrettably, evidence law’s predilection for “folk psychology” marches on. www.nunn.law/blog/covid-c...

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The Confrontation Clause and COVID Masks - nunn.law

Category: caselaw

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

After surveying the divergent perspectives of all nine justices, I came to two conclusions. First, the era of reliability principles in Confrontation Clause jurisprudence is well and trial over. Second, the post-Crawford primary purpose test is safe, but for differing reasons.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Justices Alito and Gorsuch recently called for “reconsideration” of Crawford v. Washington, signaling potential upheaval for Confrontation Clause jurisprudence. Will the Court jettison more settled doctrine? In my new blog post, I offer a prediction. nunn.law/blog/revisit...

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Revisiting Crawford v. Washington - nunn.law

Category: caselaw

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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Today's blog post: "Supreme Court of Kentucky Finds Raw, Machine-Extracted Data Does Not Implicate the Confrontation Clause": www.evidenceprofblog.com

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It’s easy to overlook Rule 401, but its low bar for relevance reflects a hugely consequential policy choice regarding how to best allocate decisionmaking power between judge, jury, and rulemakers. My thoughts on @aseesbhasin.bsky.social’s engaging new article: nunn.law/blog/asees-b...

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Asees Bhasin on Bias and the “Low Bar” of Relevance - nunn.law

In an engaging new article, which is now forthcoming in the California Law Review, Asees Bhasin challenges the belief that Rule 401’s threshold for evidentiary relevance presents an objective, neutral...

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 707 is the FRE's first response to the "AI Era." It would be a good first step, but there's much more to work yet to be done. nunn.law/blog/propose...

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Proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 707 - nunn.law

Evidence law insights and updates.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I just bought this photo, simply labeled "Old Judges," at an estate sale for $3. Little did the seller know that it's actually an original, official portrait of the Fuller Court from its Lochner term. That means, if my calculations are correct, I'm looking at an appraisal value of *at least* $7.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I've posted a draft of my next article, "The Administrative Law of McCarthyism," forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, on SSRN. Comments and feedback are very welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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The Administrative Law of McCarthyism

<p>This Article recovers the largely overlooked legal and administrative history of the federal loyalty-security program, and argues that it played a formative

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

A boycott might have been a tad extreme, but how did we get to the point where con law largely dominates the academy?

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Oh dear. RIP to one of the great ones, as a scholar and as a person.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

One of the more trivial annoyances I have with AI is the widespread skepticism it’s brought to em-dashes. I love em-dashes! I’ve used them liberally in my articles for a decade. But now, I avoid them when writing, given their association. Not the worst consequence of AI, of course, but a bummer.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Very excited to hear about this symposium, featuring three fantastic colleagues!

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Katherine Mims Crocker @crockeroncourts.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

📢 Harvard Law Review Symposium Announcement: "Judicial Review in Jeopardy?" Panel discussions on October 10; print publication in June. Honored to work with co-organizer Neil Siegel and these other excellent scholars on such an important (and timely) topic ⬇️

Flyer announcing Harvard Law Review symposium "Judicial Review in Jeopardy?"

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who has offered incredible feedback on nunn.ai over these past few months! It's still very much a work in progress, but it's been exciting to watch nunn.ai grow as a free platform for democratizing access to evidence law. Try it out, and let me know what I can improve!

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Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The best day-and-a-half of the year is always the Evidence Summer Workshop! We had everything from formal modeling to queer theory to analytic philosophy to doctrinal analysis. Thanks to my co-organizers Ed Cheng, Julia Simon-Kerr, and @alexnunn.bsky.social.

The ESW participants, about 40 beautiful people, lined up on the front steps of Vanderbilt Law School.

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Ronald J. Coleman (RJ) @ronaldjcoleman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Arrived to @vanderbilt.edu for tomorrow’s Evidence Summer Workshop. Excited to spend two days with this evidence community. Thanks to the program committee of Ed Cheng, @alexnunn.bsky.social, @maggiewittlin.bsky.social, and Julia Simon-Kerr for organizing, and to all others helping out! #ESW

Vanderbilt University’s Kirkland Hall with darkened clouds above and greenery in front

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I often return to this amusing anecdote from Thomas Grey. Amid the heyday of formalism, the Harvard faculty threatened to withhold support for the University of Chicago's fledgling law school because Chicago planned to offer courses on "unscientific" public law topics like . . . Constitutional Law.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Thanks so much to my amazing students at Texas A&M!

2024-2025
OUTSTANDING PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR
This award is proudly presented to Prof. Alex Nunn for excellence in teaching and for consistently going above and beyond to challenge, engage, and support students.
Texas A&M University School of Law
Student Bar Association

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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My Public Comment in Strong Opposition to the Proposed Amendment to the Prior Inconsistent Statement Hearsay Exclusion: tinyurl.com/5cvp3kj3

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The internal deliberations of the law journal that rejected me seven minutes after submission:

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Katherine Mims Crocker @crockeroncourts.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We had a great DC launch reception for the Texas A&M Center on the Structural Constitution last night! It was an honor to speak w/Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan & Judge Neomi Rao of the D.C. Circuit on the importance of studying structural constitutional law.

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is crazy impressive!

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I’m very excited to introduce wigmore.ai, an AI platform for learning and understanding evidence law. Named after the legendary scholar, it's designed to provide clear, professor-style explanations for all your evidence law questions.

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Wigmore - AI For Evidence Law

The premier AI-powered resource for evidence law.

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Tried to save some time editing by using Find & Replace. But now, after encountering the curious typo "Federal Rulesquently" for the third time in as many pages, I think I might have made a mistake...

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