Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Law
School of Law
An internationally recognized evidence scholar, Nance also teaches and writes about jurisprudence and legal theory, conflict of laws and the law of archeological artifacts. He is the author of numerous articles in leading law reviews, an important monograph entitled The Burdens of Proof: Discriminatory Power, Weight of Evidence, and Tenacity of Belief (Cambridge University Press 2016), and the textbook entitled Law and Justice: Cases and Readings on the American Legal System (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 1999). Before joining our faculty in 2002, Nance taught at Chicago-Kent, Cornell University, the University of Colorado and the University of San Diego.
Publications
Presentations
- "Corroboration Confusion: Toward a Purposive Understanding of Corroboration Requirements," 92 Tennessee Law Review 425 (2025);
- "Burdens of Proof and Choice of Law," in Evidential Legal Reasoning: Crossing Civil Law and Common Law Traditions (Ferrer Beltrán, J. & Vázquez, C., eds.; Cambridge University Press, 2022);
- "Weight of Evidence," in Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law (C. Dahlman, A. Stein, & G. Tuset, eds.; Oxford University Press, 2021);
- "Choice of Law for Burdens of Proof," 46 North Carolina Journal of International Law (2021).
Education
Juris Doctor
Stanford University
1977
Master of Arts
University of California, Berkeley
1981
Bachelor of Arts
Rice University
1974