Video Collection, UW Law Library

Available at the Circulation Desk for 3 day loan

The study room on the fifth floor is equipped with a TV/VCR/DVD unit for viewing

The Quest for Equal Educational Opportunity: A Brown v. Board of Education Mock Argument (DVD). 84 min.

Preliminary hearing before Judge Kathleen Kennedy Powell; defense attorneys, Gerald Uelman and Robert Shapiro; prosecutors, William Hudgman and Marcia Clark.
Published: New York: Courtroom Television Network, 1994.

CREDITS: Producer, Peter Aronson; associate producers, Mary Jane Stevenson and Suzanne Worden; senior producers, Jamie Alter and Carolyn Kresky; executive producer, Steve Johnson; editor in chief, Steven Brill; narrator, Gregg Jarrett.

SUMMARY: Testimonies by key witnesses to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to send O.J. Simpson to trial.

Originally broadcast on November 14, 2000 and November 21, 2000 as episodes of the television program: Frontline.

SUMMARY: Homocides, drug arrests, car theft, assault and battery ... it's all in a day's work for the prosecutors of Boston's Suffolk County district attorney's office. Frontline goes inside the real-life workings of America's criminal justice system to reveal the offers, counteroffers, deals and compromises that keep cases moving through our crowded courts.

Published: Chicago, Ill.: R & R Video, Commerce Clearing House and Center on Professionalism of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1989.

CAST: Tom McLaughlin, Wayne Atchison, Andrew McCosker, Jan Austell, Carmella Spear.

CREDITS: Written and created by Eleanor W. Myers; produced and directed by Rhonda Fabian-Rizzuto; executive producer, Caroline M. Simon; camera and lighting, Morris Cooperman; editor, David A. Schwartz.

SUMMARY: Highlights ethical dilemmas encountered by lawyers engaged in corporate counseling, whether participating in-house or in an outside law firm. The case study will be presented by a videotaped dramatization interspersed with leader and audience discussion of the ethical issues as they arise.

Published: Sandy Hook, Ct.: Video Yesteryear Recording, 1980.
Copyrighted by J. David Goldin.

SUMMARY: Presents three separate speeches which former president Richard M. Nixon gave including one from his first campaign for national office and his

SUMMARY: Gripping account of the summer of 1892, in which a bitter conflict erupted at the Carnegie Works in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The nation's largest steel maker took on its most militant labor union, with devastating consequences for American workers. Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick head a fascinating cast of characters which includes 300 armed Pinkerton guards and the would-be anarchist assasin, Alexander Berkman. This American tragedy still resonates one hundred years later, especially in communities hard hit by the decline of heavy industry and labor's diminishing clout.

Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Man who Killed Jim Crow.
A presentation of the University of Virginia.
Published: San Francisco, Calif.: California Newsreel (distributor), 1990.

CREDITS: Narrator, Steven Anthony Jones; producers, William A. Elwood, Mykola Kulish; director, Mykola Kulish; writer, William A. Ellwood et al; edited by Gary Weimberg and Yasha Aginsky; camera, Brad Shapiro; music, Darryl Cox.

SUMMARY: Presents the role of Charles Hamilton Houston in the cases which let to the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education. Gives background history of segregation, Jim Crow laws, NAACP and bio-data on persons influential in the desegregation movement.

CAST: Panelists: Joseph Dolan, Herbert "Jack" Miller, Archibald Cox, Nicholas Katzenbach, John Segenthaler, Burke Marshall, Anthony Lewis, John Douglas, and Edwin Guthman.

SUMMARY: A panel discussion held at Duquesne University School of Law on April 12, 1996 discussing Robert F. Kennedy's career as United States Attorney General. Includes a 15 min. video titled written and produced by Ken Gormley and Matt Kambic.

SUMMARY: Presents the key portions of both the prosecution and defense cases. Condenses 150 hours of gavel-to-gavel coverage and includes the 81 second amateur videotape which recorded the events that occurred during the evening of March 3, 1991.

The fifteenth Thomas E. Fairchild lecture, presented at the University of Wisconsin Law School, May 2, 2003.

SUMMARY: Ms. Raggi, currently a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, previously judged for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She spoke about the role of federal district courts in the United States.

CREDITS: Original concept and story line by Vladimir Suvorov; written by Tom Naygrow; translation by Nonna Maksimova; edited by Irina Anokhina.

SUMMARY: Russia has over one million two hundred thousand prisoners. Prison N-240 is considered to hold the most dangerous prisoners in Russia. Interviews with prison guards and their wives present an overview of Russia's prison system and its most notorious prison.

Recorded Dec. 6, 2005 in Washington, D.C. as a segment of the program Washington Journal.

SUMMARY: Prof. Scharf, advisor to the Iraqi special tribunal presiding over Saddam Hussein's trial, speaks about the trial and the leeway given by the judge to the uncontrollable defendant. He takes questions from callers.

Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Frontline, Nov. 23, 2004.

CREDITS: Directed by David Rummel; written by Lowell Bergman and David Rummel; produced by David Rummel and Nelli Kheyfets; narrated by Will Lyman.

SUMMARY: The average American family today carries 10 credit cards. Credit card debt and personal bankruptcies are now at an all time high. With no legal limit on the amount of interest or fees that can be charged, credit cards have become the most profitable sector of the American banking industry: more than $30 billion in profits last year alone. Frontline and the New York times join forces to investigate how an industry few Americans understand how became so pervasive, so lucrative, and so powerful.

Sentencing Criminals: After a Quarter Century of Reform, Where Are We? (DVD & VHS). 2 hr. 25 min.

2001 Annual Kastenmeier Colloquium, held March 23, 2001, at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

CREDITS: Moderator: Thomas Hutchison; panelists: Douglas Berman, Michael E. Smith, and John Steer.

SUMMARY: Dramatizes use of the Shepard's Citation Service on the lexis.com research system.

Snapshots from the Seventh Circuit: Continuity and Change, 1966 to 2007 (DVD). (unknown running time)

The nineteenth Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, delivered on April 27, 2007, at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

CREDITS: Guest lecturer: Hon. Diane P. Wood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

SUMMARY: Judge Wood discusses Thomas Fairchild's contributions to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit over the course of his tenure on the court.

Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Public Television in cooperation with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, c1998.
Funded in part by the Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Commission with funds from individual and corporate contributors and the State of Wisconsin

CREDITS: Project director, Amanda K. Todd; assistant project director, Karen Leone de Nie; executive producer, Kay Klubertanz; producers/writers, Shelly Young, Dean Thomas; director, Dean Thomas; director of photography, Raymond L. Ibsen; Videographers, Raymond L. Ibsen, Frank Boll; Narrator, Tejumola F. Ologbaomi

SUMMARY: A documentary on the fugitive slave case involving Joshua Glover, who escaped from a Missouri farm in 1852 and found freedom in Racine. He was arrested in 1854 and imprisoned under the federal Fugitive Slave Law. He was broken out of the Milwaukee jail by a band of abolitionists led by newspaper publisher Sherman Booth, sparking a legal battle that pitted state and federal courts against one another for more than seven years. The story is told through interviews, historic documents, and images.|

Narrated in English with English subtitles for Spanish and Quechuan dialogues.
Special features include: Filmakers' commentary, interview with International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) experts, New York premiere Q&A, Verz Lentz slide show, trailer.

CREDITS: A film by Paco de Onis, Peter Kinoy, and Pamela Yates; produced by Paco de Onis; directed by Pamela Yates; edited by Peter Kinoy ; cinematographer, Juan Duran; original music, Tito La Rosa and Tavo Castillo.

SUMMARY: The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission's official report chronicles the atrocities of both sides during the twenty year war between Abimael Guzman's revolutionary "Shining path" Indian guerrilla movement and the establishment governments. The Commission presents an alternate lens through which citizens of Peru can evaluate the inequalities their Indian people sought to address and the inevitable ravages modern terrorism brings to everyone.

SUMMARY: Prof. Kritzer discusses the meaning of concepts and procedures like "statistical inference," "statistical significance," and "regression."

CREDITS: Series producer, Mark Zwonitzer; director, Thomas Lennon; writers, Mark Zwonitzer and Richard Ben Cramer; executive producer, Jody Sheff; executive in charge, William R. Grant.

SUMMARY: "The series charts the court's unique evolution, using archival footage and innovative graphic techniques to help audiences grasp complex legal concepts. Interviews with some of the greatest legal minds in the country as well as exclusive access to the court, help personalize the justices while providing context to key decisions and hot-button issues of the day."

CONTENTS:
v. 1. One nation under law -- v. 2. A new kind of justice -- v. 3. A nation of liberties -- v. 4. The Rehnquist revolution.

Produced at Gonzaga University School of Law's Institute for Law School Teaching.
Accompanying binder in general stacks at: KF/264/T43/1997.

SUMMARY: Law school students discuss classroom experiences that interfered with their ability to learn and experiences that enhanced their learning. Barriers to learning presents teachers lack of sensitivity toward students and pathways to learning reinforces positive teaching methods.

Text, Sighs, and Videotape: Sample Conferences that Present Special Challenges to Teachers (VHS). 63 min.

Prepared for use in the training course for Legal Writing Teaching Assistants at the Law School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

CREDITS: Reported by Paul Duke; producers, Steve York, Berry Richards; director, Steve York; executive producer, Ricki Green.

SUMMARY: A two-part series on the Supreme Court, its history and a step-by-step narrative of how cases arrive, are considered, decided and reported.

18th Thomas E. Fairchild lecture, University of Wisconsin Law School, Apr. 21, 2006.

CREDITS: Lecture by the Honorable Joan Humphrey Lefkow of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

SUMMARY: Judge Lefkow, who was one of Judge Fairchild's clerks, spoke in honor of her mentor. The talk took the form of a "walk down memory lane," in which Judge Lefkow shared her own memories of working with Judge Fairchild as well as the memories of her fellow clerks, who had sent their contributions to her in advance. Judge Lefkow's two current clerks, Jordan Russell and Jed Roher, stood with her as the three of them gave a dramatic presentation, taking the voices of Judge Fairchild and his clerks, many of whom were in the audience at the well-attended event. Roher, who read the lines of Judge Fairchild, is a third-year student at the UW Law School. As the lecture was about to begin, Judge Fairchild himself entered the room to a standing ovation.

SUMMARY: Patrick J. Fitzgerald, whose work as special prosecutor probing the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity drew national attention, spoke on the legal system's treatment of jurors.

CREDITS: Directed by Anne Lewis; associate director, Buck Maggard; sound and editing, Anne Lewis; executive producer, Dee Davis.

SUMMARY: Discusses the history and impact of strip mining in Kentucky. Focuses on actions by people directly affected by mining on both sides of the question: miners and farmers. Highlights the evolving legislation imposed to control strip mining and enabling newer methods such as "mountain top removal."

Originally broadcast as the ABC television program Nightline, with Ted Koppel as moderator.

CREDITS: Directed by Roger Goodman; producers, Richard Harris et al.; editor, Jim Morris.

SUMMARY: Ted Koppel moderates a panel discussion with questions from invited guests who were involved in the confirmation process on the day following the confirmation of Thomas Hill to the U.S. Supreme Court. Panelists include Republican senators Alan Simpson and Arlen Specter, who were on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democratic senators Paul Simon (also on the Judiciary Committee) and Bill Bradley, who was on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Teachers manual in pamphlet box at end of Instructional Video Collection.
Published: Los Angeles: Master Productions in cooperation with Loyola of Los Angeles Law School, 1989-1997.
Series: Attorney/Client Interviewing and Counseling.

CREDITS: Directors of photography, Miro Gabor, Marek Jicha; music, Peter Fish; editor, David Charap.

SUMMARY: Documentary profiles the 1952 trial of fourteen Czechoslovak communists, including Rudolf Slâanskây, former General Secretary of the Party, tried on charges of high treason and espionage.

CAST: Faculty: Angela B. Bartell, William H. Coffey, Allan J. Deehr, E. Michael McCann, William G. Retert, Thomas P. Schneider.

CREDITS: Producers, Daniel B. Polin and Kenneth Mandel; editors, Benno Schoberth and Stan Warnow; music, T.O. Sterrett; camera, Yoram Millo; graphics, Tim Camuti.

SUMMARY: Presents a complete account of the Jerusalem trial of Adolph Eichmann in 1961. Shows a detailed exposition of the events leading to the Holocaust as well as the tragedy of a man who thought obedience to an order exonerated him from responsibility for unbelievable crimes.

Published: Chicago, Ill.: American Bar AssociationConsortium for Professional Education, 1982.
Presented by the American Bar Association Consortium for Professional Education in cooperation with the Tort and Insurance Practice Section.
Study guide in pamphlet box at end of Instructional Video Collection.

CONTENTS:
tape 1. Motions in limine
tape 2. Examination of the insured
tape 3. Examination of insured's former bookkeeper - defense witness
tape 4. Closing arguments

DVD bonus features: Think Like a Lawyer; includes 2 hours of additional professor interviews that cover the entire law school experience.

CAST: Ron Anderson, Cory King, Tesha McMinn, Braden Metcalf, Reece Norris, Katie Griffin, Stephanie Simon Hybl.

CREDITS: Directed by Porter Heath Morgan; executive producer, Porter Heath Morgan; associate producers, Porter H. Morgan III and Betsy Morgan; music by Jason Moore; edited by Johnathan Dortch.

SUMMARY: Follows the fascinating journey of students through their first year of law school as they encounter a new language, a new way of thinking and a new way of life. These students juggle families and relationships as they adjust to a high stress and highly competitive environment that puts a premium on competitiveness. Complete with insight from legal scholars around the country, this film explores the unique and demanding experience that is law school today, where success is measured for many by grades, based on one exam at the end of the semester. Top marks are few, their price is high, and disappointment is often widespread.

CREDITS: Written, produced and directed by Nonny de la Pena; edited by Joe Bini and Greg Byers; executive producers Robert Greenwald, Earl Katz, and Dan Raskov.

SUMMARY: Discusses how the USA PATRIOT Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans under the guise of being part of the war on terrorism, and how paranoia, fear and racial profiling have led to gross infringements on freedom and democracy without strengthening national security.

Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judge's Role in Stranger and Nonstranger Rape and Sexual Assault Cases. A Self Directed DVD Curriculum. ca. 4 hrs.

System requirements: PC-compatible computer; DVD-ROM drive and DVD playback software, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Internet connection (ROM portion only).

CREDITS: The National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts; Lynn Hecht Schafran, director; Claudia J. Bayliff and Roberta M. Baldini, project attorneys.

SUMMARY: NJEP has adapted its highly regarded video curriculum for DVD. This DVD version is augmented with a segment on the neurobiology of trauma and an associated website with a searchable annotated database.

CONTENTS:
Introduction -- The curriculum materials -- The curriculum components -- Supplementary materials on the DVD and on the web -- Alternate wasy to present the curriculum -- Training format and sample agendas -- Planning for a group presentation -- Program logistics -- Enriching the program with local expertise, local materials and additional exercises -- Introducing the program -- Concluding and evaluating the program -- Contact for additional information or questions.

CREDITS: By Gittelman Film Associates; produced for Union Carbide Coporation, c1989.

SUMMARY: This video presents an accounting of the investigation of the nature and cause of the 1984 Bhopal tragedy. It details the events encountered by the investigating teams, up to the discovery and confirmation that the tragedy was caused by human sabotage.

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2006.
Special features (disc 1): 7 deleted scenes ("The congress project", "No nukes", "Airbags", "Big boys/Flint", "Bell's Palsy/Shafeek", "Proposition 103", "Meeting with The Congressional Black Caucus")
Special features (disc 2): 7 featurettes ("Profile of a charismatic leader"; "What kind of president would Ralph Nader be?"; "Debating the role of third parties in the U.S.", "What happened to the Democratic Party?", "Why is the Right better organized than the Left?", "Ralph Nader on the Iraq war", "A debate on corporate power in America")

CREDITS: Written & directed by Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan; produced by Kevin O'Donnell; directors of photography, Mark Raker et al.; editors, Alexis Provost and Beth Gallagher; original music by Joe Kraemer.

SUMMARY: The life and times of Ralph Nader, political analyst and presidential candidate. Includes footage and interviews with those who knew and worked with him, including an interview with the man himself.

Up for Grabs: The (Historical [crossed out]) Hysterical Battle for the Bonds Ball (DVD). 89 min.

CREDITS: Written, produced, and directed by Michael Wranovics; executive producers, Robert Petrie, Helen Woo, Christopher Parry; co-producers, Michael Lindenberger, Josh Keppel.

SUMMARY: Production exposes the custody fight over Barry Bonds' record-setting 73rd home run ball. From the embattled litigants who wouldn't settle, to the impassioned eyewitnesses and their contradictory accounts, to the bemused reporters who covered the bizarre case, Wranovics presents a cast of characters who prove that truth is funnier than fiction.

Upholding an Oath to the Constitution: A Legislator's Responsibilities (DVD & VHS). 90 min.

17th Thomas E. Fairchild lecture, University of Wisconsin Law School, Apr. 22, 2005.

Originally shown on the television program: CBS Reports. Published: New York: Carousel Film and Video, 1986.

SUMMARY: Looks at the disintegration of the strong Black family of twenty-five years ago, telling how now half of all Black families are headed by a single parent and that 60 percent of all Black children are born out of wedlock. Reporter Bill Moyers talks to Blacks in a Newark, N.J., ghetto in order to show the consequences of these problems.

SUMMARY: Instructional video showing how to use the CCH Standard federal tax reporter, including how to research by number, by subject, or by case name.

Published: Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1994.
Sponsored by the American Inns of Court.
12 videocassettes.

CONTENTS:
Trial of William Shakespeare
Preparing and taking depositions the right way and the wrong way
Computer-enhanced litigation
Persona non grata, or, Am I my sibling's keeper?
Meet the press: lawyers, judges, ethics and the news media
Judge baiting, error creating and other ethical conundrums
Technology in the courtroom
Mediation
Preparation, direct & cross examination of a difficult witness
Effective jury selection techniques
Sex, discovery and Uncle Sam
Lies, delusions and treachery

CREDITS: Producer/director, Karina Epperlein; cinematography, John Knoop; sound recording, Jaime Kibben; editing, Nila Bogue and Joanne Feinberg; sound design & mix, Eric Schurig.

SUMMARY: em>Voices from Inside follows German-born theater artist Karina Epperlein into a federal women's prison where she is teaching weekly classes as a volunteer. Her racially mixed group of women prisoners becomes a circle of trust and healing.

SUMMARY: A Florida dance club chain uses unsavory tactics to lure large sums of money from elderly women.

Published: Eagen, MN: West Group, 1998.
Kit contains video, paper guide and paper table of contents sheet.

SUMMARY: Describes the company's Web-based legal education subscription service.

SUMMARY: Introduction to legal research using WESTLAW and other West Group products.

CONTENTS:
1. Introduction
2. Case law reporters
3. Digests
4. WESTLAW
5. Statutes
6. Secondary material
7. Special searches
8. Putting it all together

SUMMARY: Examines the reliability of eyewitness identification and the implications of DNA evidence for the American justice system. Considers the case of Ronald Cotton who spent eleven years in prison before DNA evidence proved him innocent of rape.

What Went Wrong? Conversations with Disciplined Lawyers: A Documentary (VHS) . 60 min.

SUMMARY: A one hour video documentary about lawyers who have been disciplined for acts of misconduct.

Will the Death Penalty Remain Alive in the Twenty-first Century? International Norms, Discrimination, Arbitrariness, and the Risk of Executing the Innocent (DVD & VHS). 90 min.

12th Thomas E. Fairchild lecture,presented at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2000.

Address presented at University of Wisconsin Law School, June 28, 2005, by Robert W. Gordon.

Published by Fiat Lucre LLC.
"A report from the front lines of the real culture wars: Lawrence Lessig & Mickey Mouse, Carrie McLaren & Public Enemy, Don Joyce & U2, Larry Gross & Star Wars, Andy Warhol & Mona Lisa, Ezra G & DJ Akiko, Hot Rocks & The Rolling stones, Pretzel & Critters."

SUMMARY: Argues that fair use within U.S. copyright law is being eroded. "Learn how corporations use 'statutory damages' as a secret weapon to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from people who are guilty until proven innocent"--Jewell case

The Wisconsin Idea and Legal Research: From the ASSA to Willard Hurst (VHS). 60 min.

SUMMARY: In this talk Dr. Tomlins traces the intellectual origins of the Wisconsin Idea to the first sustained encounters of law with social science in post-Civil War United States. (The American Social Science Association (ASSA) was established in 1865.) He then explores two twentieth century variations on the Wisconsin Idea: the law and economics scholarship of John R. Commons, and the law and society scholarship of Willard Hurst.

Symposium held February 18, 2005, at the University of Wisconsin Law School, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Law Review, the Latino/a Law Students Association, and the Black Law Students Association.

CONTENTS:
Introductory remarks / Elizabeth Mertz -- Beyond legal aesthetics / Victoria Nourse -- The new v. the old legal realism: things ain't what they used to be / Stewart Macaulay -- A new realism for legal studies / Arthur McEvoy -- Property and Chicano poverty: a fractionalized legal template from the US Mexico War to the present / Guadalupe Luna -- Interrogating law & economics theory: evaluating the role of race in property sales in rural North Carolina / Thomas Mitchell.

CAST: Narrated by Jeffrey Wright; participants, Mekhi Phifer, Larenz Tate, Terry Kinney, Alicia Keys.

CREDITS: Producers, Adam D. Singer, Tommy Walker, Peter Gilbert, Nancy LeBrun; writer, Nathan Antila.

SUMMARY: On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education that the concept of "separate but equal" school segregation was unconstitutional. Director Peter Gilbert explores the history and legacy of the legal decision.

Lecture delivered at the University of Wisconsin Law School on April 21, 2004, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Innocence Project of the Law School's Frank J. Remington Center, the University of Wisconsin chapter of the American Constitution Society, and the Criminal Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin.

SUMMARY: Janet Reno spoke on wrongful convictions and the unreliability of eyewitness identification.

CREDITS: Narrated by Gary Kobs; written by Richard Rashke; produced and directed by David Brega.

SUMMARY: This program presents a proven method to aid attorney preparation of clients prior to depositions in divorce cases which will result in better testimony.