Professor Imwinkelried delivers guest lecture at Berkeley Law

  • by Carla Meyer

This semester, UC Berkeley School of Law is offering a new course titled Secrecy. The course readings include a number of Professor Ed Imwinkelried's writings on privilege law.  On Nov. 14, Imwinkelried appeared as a guest lecturer in the course.

The lecture focused on Dean Wigmore's classic instrumental criteria for determining whether to recognize a communications privilege for a social relationship. Imwinkelried critiqued the behavioral assumptions underlying the Wigmorean model. He then discussed the alternative humanistic model, based on autonomy privacy, that he has proposed in The New Wigmore: Evidentiary Privileges (3d ed. 2017).

Professor Imwinkelried is a world-renowned evidence expert who has published extensively in the field.