Marianne Wesson
Professor Emeritus
Criminal Law; Evidence; Trial Practice; Law and Literature
Full Faculty Bio: https://www.colorado.edu/law/marianne-wesson
Published Books
| A Death at Crooked Creek: The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter (2014). |
| Chilling Effect, (2004). |
| A Suggestion of Death, (2000). |
| Render Up the Body, (1998). |
Articles
| Dunya, 76 UMKC L. Rev. 795 (Law Stories: Tales from Legal Practice, Experience, and Education) (2008). |
| Remarkable Strategems And Conspiracies: How Unscrupulous Lawyers And Credulous Judges Created An Exception To The Hearsay Rule, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 1675 (Symposium: Ethics and Evidence) (2007). |
| Particular Intentions: The Hillmon Case and the Supreme Court, 18 Law & Lit. 343 (2006). |
| The Hillmon Case, the MacGuffin, and the Supreme Court, Litig., Fall 2005, at 30. (2005). |
| Wesson (with Bergman & LeFrancois), New Developments in Fourth, Fifth & Sixth Amendment Law, 31 N.M. L. Rev. 175 (2001). |
| A Novelist's Perspective, 50 DePaul L. J. 583 (50th Anniversary symposium on Civil Litigation and Popular Culture) (2000). |
| Three's A Crowd: Law, Literature, and Truth, 34 Tulsa L.J. 699 (1999). |
| That's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It: The Jury as Fifth Business in the Trial of O.J. Simpson and Other Matters, 67 U. Colo. L. Rev. 949 (1996). |
Book Chapters
| "Low Connections": Some Wisdom for the Academic Lawyer in a History of English Magic, in Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays 387 (Christine A. Corcos ed.) (2010). |
| Domesticated Monsters, in Criminal Law Conversations 262 (Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan eds.) (2009) (Comment on Ch. 12: Joseph E. Kennedy, Monstrous Offenders and the Search for Solidarity Through Modern Punishment).. |
| Wesson (with Paul Bergman), I am going with a man by the name of Hillmon, in Trial Stories (Michael E. Tigar & Angela J. Davis eds.) (2008). |
| The Hillmon Case, the Supreme Court, and the McGuffin, in Evidence Stories 277 (Foundation Press, R. Lempert ed.) (2006). |
Book Reviews
| Book Review, 26 Signs, No. 2 (2001). |
| Reasonable Women (Review of Elizabeth M. Schneider, Battered Women And Feminist Lawmaking), xviii The Women's Review of Books 29 (2000). |
| Second Thoughts (Review of Daphne Patai, Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism), xvi The Women's Review of Books 9 (1999). |
| Atticus Finch Outnumbered (Review of Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, in Jurist: Books On Law, December (eds. Fred R. Shapiro and Jane Garry) (1998). |
| Life in Hell (Review of Beth Sipe and Evelyn J. Hall: I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence), xiv The Women's Review of Books 18 (1997). |
| Review of The Feel of Silence by Bonnie Poitras Tucker, 46 J. Legal Educ. 627 (1996). |
Courses:
| Fall 2014 | Evidence and Trial Practice | LAWS 6363-001 |
| Spring 2014 | Evidence | LAWS 6353-001 |
| Spring 2014 | Seminar: Law and Literature | LAWS 8458-001 |
Our Vision
With our roots in Colorado and a global outlook, we are ...
a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
Our Mission
To be an outstanding public law school that: provides students with a state-of-the-art legal education and prepares them to serve wisely and with professionalism; advances the development of knowledge through scholarship, testing of new ideas, and challenges to the status quo; and serves as a vehicle and catalyst for meaningful public service, all of which deliver high value to our students and have positive impacts?both locally and globally?on the legal profession and society.