Roger C. Park is a law professor at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California

California

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, who specializes in evidence

Evidence (law)

The law of evidence encompasses the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in a legal proceeding. These rules determine what evidence can be considered by the trier of fact in reaching its decision and, sometimes, the weight that may be given to that evidence...

. He received his B.A. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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, where he was Case Editor of the Harvard Law Review

Harvard Law Review

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. He has also served as a law clerk for Judge Bailey Aldrich

Bailey Aldrich

Bailey Aldrich was a judge of the United States federal courts for more than 48 years.A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Aldrich graduated from Harvard College in 1928 and Harvard Law School in 1932. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954. After 22 years in...

 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

He is co-author of the textbook Evidence: Cases and Materials (11th Ed. Foundation Press 2009), and numerous publications on evidence, including: "A Subject Matter Approach to Hearsay Reform," 86 Mich. L. Rev. 51 (1987), "Character at the Crossroads," 49 Hastings L.J. 717 (1998), and "Grand Perspectives on Evidence Law" (Va. L. J. 2001).