Evidentiary Foundations

Liz Heffernan, LLB (Dublin), LL.M. (Dalhousie), LLM & JSD (Chicago), BL, admitted New York & US Federal Bar, is an Associate Professor and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. She was formerly a lecturer in law at University College Dublin (2001-2007), Visiting Professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia, USA (1995-1996 and 1999-2000), and Law Clerk at the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit (1998-1999) and the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1997-1998 & 2000-2001). Liz Heffernan has been teaching evidence in Irish law schools since 2001 and has published nationally and internationally on the subject. Previous publications include: Heffernan, Legal Professional Privilege (Bloomsbury Professional, 2011) Heffernan, Ryan and Imwinkelried, Evidentiary Foundations: Irish Edition (Tottel Publishing, 2008) Heffernan, Scientific Evidence: Fingerprints and DNA (First Law, 2006) Heffernan, Evidence: Cases and Materials (Thomson Round Hall, 2005) Ray Ryan is a publisher and critic. He is the author of Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000, editor of Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics, 1949-1999, and, with LiamMcIlvanney, co-editor of Ireland and Scotland: Culture and Society, 1700-2000.