Professor Maggie Wittlin published Common Problems of Plausibility and Probabilism, a response to Ronald Allen and Michael Pardo's Relative Plausibility and Its Critics, in The International Journal of Evidence & Proof. The response argues that while Allen and Pardo's "relative plausibility" theory of proof has certain advantages over probabilistic theories, it also fails to avoid several problems that the authors attribute to probabilism. The response contributes to an ongoing scholarly debate about how to best understand proof at trial.
Wittlin also presented her working paper, Evidence, Meta-Evidence, and Preliminary Injunctions, at the Fourth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop at Stanford Law School in November. And she presented her work on jury deliberations, previously published in the University of New Hampshire Law Review, at the Association of American Law Schools' annual conference in New Orleans. She presented as part of the Evidence Section panel, "Problems of Proof: #MeToo and 'Who Me?'"