Inside the Delaware Chancery Court

This Blog has engaged in a variety of innovative practices, including the reliance on both faculty and students to write posts.  This week and last, for example, have been mostly devoted to student posts.  One of the other innovative steps has been trial coverage.  This Blog has used faculty and students to attend trials and blog about them.  The Blog covered the criminal trial of Joe Nacchio and the dismissal of Ward Churchill.

Coverage of trials has, however, involved a certain degree of serendipity.  Trial coverage has been limited by those that physically occur in the local of the Law School, in this case in Denver.  So it was with great interest that today we had an opportunity to peer inside the Delaware Chancery Court, watching portions of the bench trial in Amirsaleh, a case that engendered both a faculty and student post.  Courtroom View Network provided a live stream of the hearing. 

With the US Supreme Court now posting same day transcripts of oral arguments, the judicial process becomes far more accessible and provides greater opportunity to use actual trials and hearings as teaching tools.  With any luck, this Blog will find itself in the Delaware courtroom on a more frequent basis.