Entertainment & Sports
Jul. 1, 2022
Stream it Tonight! To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why watch? Atticus Finch is a role model for his children, for lawyers, for humanity and for the ages. But his closing argument strategy could have used a bit of dusting off.
In a rural Alabama town in the 1930’s, Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends Black sharecropper Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), who is on trial for raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. A guilty verdict is certain, but Finch accepted the judge’s request that he defend Rob...
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