Law students across the country are preparing for final exams of the spring term.  If you’re one of them and are preparing for an evidence exam, check out the Evidence module on Spindle Law. Peter Tillers, law professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, is creator and editor of this module, having added over 1,600 branches and 1,600 authorities, as well as a great deal of commentary on the subtleties of evidence law in the comments to those rules and authorities. While Professor Tillers’s section on Spindle Law lays out evidence rules and exceptions in a straightforward, intuitive way, his interest in evidence goes far beyond the rules themselves.

In June, Professor Tillers will be chairing an all-day workshop during the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL). The workshop is called Artificial Intelligence & Evidential Inference. Tillers said, “Panelists include many of the leading experts on legal reasoning, logic and practical reasoning in general, the law of evidence, and factual inference and proof.” (more…)

Check out this great new post by Peter Tillers on what’s happening with the evidence module, which Peter is creating and overseeing.  It’s also the best description I’ve seen of certain aspects of the whole Spindle Law project.