Tennessee Evidence Courtroom Manual

Susan L. Kay, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Vanderbilt University Law School, has headed the law school's clinical and experiential legal education program since 2001, having joined the clinical faculty in 1980. In addition to teaching in the Criminal Practice Clinic, Professor Kay supervises the Trial Advocacy courses, and teaches courses on Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law, Evidence and Externships. She is active in many professional and service activities and currently serves as immediate-past president of the Clinical Legal Education Association, a national association that represents more than 600 law faculty. Within the clinic, Professor Kay has conducted major public law litigation concerning jail overcrowding, inmates¿ rights and juvenile justice. In 2007, Professor Kay completed an assignment as a court-appointed monitor in federal litigation challenging the state¿s compliance with its responsibilities to children enrolled in the TennCare program. During 2005, Professor Kay served as co-reporter with Professor Emeritus Don Hall on the Tennessee Bar Association - Criminal Justice Section's study of effectiveness of counsel in death penalty cases. Recently, Professor Kay has been appointed by the Board of the Law School Admissions Council to chair a newly-created task-force on accommodations for test-takers with disabilities.

Glen Weissenberger is the former dean at DePaul University College of Law. He is a recognized legal authority on evidence, civil commitment, and the insanity defense. As an author, he has penned numerous works including Weissenberger’s Federal Evidence, which is frequently cited in law review articles and texts on evidence law. He served as an editorial consultant with Anderson Publishing Co., a Cincinnati-based legal publisher, from 1981 to 2002, and currently serves in the same capacity for LexisNexis Law School Publications. He has been the catalyst behind the development of more than 200 titles that are utilized extensively in legal education. Prof. Weissenberger was the Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati, where he began his career in 1975, and during his tenure he served as a special counsel to the university president and as director of the university’s Center for Studies in Professional Skills. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ohio State Bar Foundation Outstanding Research Award, the University of Cincinnati Faculty Achievement Award, and the University of Cincinnati Jerome P. Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence.