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Oct. 28, 2022
Stream it Tonight! Evelyn (2002)
Though Ireland has a written constitution, the judges are steeped in the British tradition of parliamentary supremacy. Will the Supreme Court break from tradition and hold a statute unconstitutional?
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.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Why watch: Pro bono lawyers try to convince the Irish Supreme Court to reunite a single father with his daughter who turns out to be a dynamite witness.
Desmond and Charlotte Doyle are raising seven-year old Evelyn in Dublin when Charlotte vanishes in 1953. Because Desmond was unemployed and alcoholic, Evelyn was committed to a Catholic orphanage. Desmond gets his life back together and seeks to reclaim custody of Evelyn, but the la...
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