Roger Park

Roger C. Park (born 1942) is a law professor at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, who specializes in evidence. He received his B.A. from Harvard University ,spent a year of combat duty in Vietnam, then received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Case Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has also served as a law clerk for Judge Bailey Aldrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. After law school, he worked for a small civil rights firm and represented dissidents, including members of the Black Panther Party. In 1973, he started teaching law at the University of Minnesota, where he because a chaired professor. In 1995, he accepted a position at UC Hastings College of Law, where he is the Hervey Distinguished Professor of Law

He is co-author of the textbook Evidence: Cases and Materials (12h Ed. Foundation Press 2013), and numerous publications on evidence, including: "A Subject Matter Approach to Hearsay Refo," 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). His most recent book is "Outline of the Law of Evidence, Case Briefs and Lecture Recaps" (Sunjitsu Publishing 2016), and his most recent article is "The Probative Value of Urine Tests" (publication pending 2016).