Daniel J. Steinbock Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Harold A. Anderson Professor of Law & Values Campus Phone: (419) 530-4107 Fax Number: (419) 530-4526    E-Mail  daniel.steinbock@utoledo.edu Secretary:  Judy Cobb (419) 530-5103

Fall 2008

Evidence

Syllabus

First Assignment

Daniel J. Steinbock is Harold A. Anderson Professor of Law and Values and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Toledo College of Law. He has been a member of the faculty since 1985 and has taught Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Administrative Law, Immigration Law, and Trial Practice. He was voted Outstanding Professor by six spring graduating classes. Prior to joining the College of Law, he taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Seattle University.

Dean Steinbock received his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University. Before entering law teaching he worked as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York, as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society in state and federal courts in New York City, and as Associate and Executive Director of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York. Dean Steinbock also served as Education Coordinator in Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand for the International Rescue Committee. He is co-author of Unaccompanied Children: Care and Protection in Wars, Natural Disasters and Refugee Movements (Oxford U. Press), whose recommendations were adopted by United Nations agencies. Dean Steinbock has also written law review articles and book chapters about refugee children, refugee law, search and seizure, identity documentation, and data mining. He is currently a member of the Ohio Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure.

Books:

Unaccompanied Children:  Care and Protection in Wars, Natural Disasters and Refugee Movements (Oxford University Press 1988) (with E. Ressler and N. Boothby).

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Designating the Dangerous,” 30 Seattle U. L. Rev. 65 (2006)

“Data Matching, Data Mining, and Due Process,”  40 Georgia L. Rev. 1 ( 2005)

“Fourth Amendment Limits on National Identity Cards,” in Privacy and Technologies of identity: A Cross-disciplinary Conversation (Katherine J. Strandburg and Daniela Stan Raicu, eds., Springer 2005)   

“National Identity Cards: Fourth and Fifth Amendment Issues,” 56 Florida L. Rev. 697 (2004), to bereprinted in  27 Immigration and Nationality Review -- (2005)

“Separated Children in Mass Migration,” 22 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 297 (2003)

“The Qualities of Mercy:  Maximizing the Impact of U.S. Refugee Resettlement” 37 U. Mich. J. L. Reform. 951 (2003)

"National Identity Cards:  Fourth and Fifth Amendment Issues," 56 Florida L. Rev. 697 (2004)

"Separated Children in Mass Migration," 22 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 297 (2003)

"The Qualities of Mercy:  Maximizing the Impact of U.S. Refugee Resettlement," 37 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. (forthcoming 2003)

"The Wrong Line Between Freedom and Restraint:  The Unreality, Obscurity, and Incivility of the Fourth Amendment Consensual Encounter Doctrine," 38 San Diego L. Rev. 507 (2001)

"The Fifth Amendment at Home and Abroad:  A Comment on United States v. Balsys," 31 U. Tol. L. Rev. 209 (2000)

"Interpreting the Refugee Definition," 45 UCLA L. Rev. 733 (1998)

"The Refugee Definition as Law:  Issues of Interpretation," in Refugee Rights and Realities:  Evolving International Concepts and Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

"Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Host Country Foster Families," 8 International Journal of Refugee Law 6 (1996)

"Refuge and Resistance: Casablanca's Lessons for Refugee Law," 7 Georgetown Immigration L.J. 649 (1993)

"Refugee Children: Some Current Issues," 5 Journal of Child Law ( U.K.) 12 (1993)

"The Admission of Unaccompanied Children Into the United States," 7 Yale   Law & Policy Review 137 (1989)

"Expert Testimony on Proximate Cause," 41 Vand. L. Rev. 241 (1988) (with W. M. Richman and D. E. Ray), reprinted in 38 Defense Law Journal 539 (1989)

Professor Steinbock teaches the following courses:

Criminal Procedure - Investigations:  A study of the constitutional and statutory limitations on the conduct of criminal investigations.  Includes the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, as well as the evidentiary consequences of their violation. 

Evidence:  The rules and policies governing a trial court's fact-finding process, as exemplified by the Federal Rules of Evidence. Topics cover the full range of evidentiary issues at trial, including the content of admissible proof, the manner of presenting it and the respective roles of the judge and jury.

Immigration Law:  A study of United States citizenship and the admission and removal of noncitizens, including the bases for legal immigration, temporary presence, and refugee and asylum status.  Prerequisite: Constitutional Law.

Trial Practice:  Simulated exercises and trials, including such matters as pretrial motions, jury selection, opening statement, presentation of evidence, cross-examination, witness impeachment, closing argument and jury instructions. Emphasis is given to developing and proving a theory of the case.   Prerequisite:  Evidence.