Emily Spottswood

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Emily Spottswood

Position
David and Deborah Fonvielle Professor
Contact Information

Florida State University
College of Law
Main Classroom Building, Room 303
Phone: 850.644.4248
spottswood@law.fsu.edu

Education

J.D., Northwestern University, 2007
B.S., Northwestern University, 2002

Professor Emily Spottswood focuses her research on the design of fact-finding environments, investigating how we might make civil and criminal litigation more accurate, more acceptable and more cost-effective through reforms to the rules of procedure and evidence. She teaches Evidence, Civil Procedure, Scientific Evidence, and Advanced Civil Procedure. After graduating first in her class at Northwestern Law, Spottswood clerked for both the Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Honorable Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

 

Select Recent Publications

Burdens of Proof, in Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law (Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein & Giovanni Tuzet, editors) (Oxford University Press 2021)

Paradoxes of Proof, in Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law (Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein & Giovanni Tuzet, editors) (Oxford University Press 2021)

Continuous Burdens of Proof, 21 Nev. L.J. 779 (2021)

Proof Discontinuities and Civil Settlements, 22 Theoretical Inquiries in L. 201 (2020)

On the Limitations of a Unitary Model of the Proof Process, 23 Int’l J. Evidence & Proof 75 (2019)