North Carolina Evidence Courtroom Manual

Walker Jameson Blakey, J.D. (summa cum laude, Order of the Coif), Ohio State University (1967) A.B., Harvard University (1963) is a Professor of Law at the university of North Carolina. He was in private practice in Columbus, Ohio, from 1967 to 1971. From 1969 to 1971 he also served as a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School. He joined the UNC School of Law faculty in 1971. He has written and lectured widely on evidence and trial advocacy, and served as a consultant to the committees that drafted the North Carolina Rules of Evidence.

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.