Evidence: Secondary Sources

This full-color e-book of Evidence logic maps, which supports any classroom text, is designed to provide visual aids including graphic and color cues to aid in the understanding and application of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Now fully updated to reflect all rule changes through December 2024, this edition features an expanded array of visual tools to enhance student learning.

This book offers a highly readable and engaging overview of the theory and principles of evidence. An opening chapter offers a broad conceptual framework for understanding evidence. This framework is then used throughout the text to help the reader achieve a firm grasp of the essentials: relevance, character, hearsay, impeachment, opinion, privileges, and non-conventional forms of evidence. The book also includes an appendix that explains the mechanics of finding, offering, and objecting to evidence. The author has drawn on his thirty years of experience as an evidence professor and a practicing litigator to provide the reader with a solid understanding of what the evidence rules are trying to achieve and how they are going about it. This book will be helpful to any law student taking an introductory evidence course, trial practice simulation course, or litigation clinic, as well as to new litigators.

The Nutshell, reflecting the Federal Rules of Evidence as restyled and amended up to and including December 1, 2024, contains a crisp, clear, concise, and complete explanation of each Federal Rule of Evidence designed to prepare every student for the course final, the multistate bar examination, and most significantly a successful litigation practice career. The United States Supreme Court's controversial testimonial/nontestimonial interpretation of the Confrontation Clause developed in Crawford and progeny is thoroughly analyzed as well. With respect to the definition of hearsay, the not hearsay definition, the most commonly encountered hearsay exceptions, expert witnesses, and character evidence even more exhaustive treatment is provided. Concrete illustrations are presented throughout.

This book addresses theoretical problems concerning legal evidence. The concept of evidence is expected to fulfill a number of distinct roles in science and philosophy, but also in legal theory and law, some of which are complementary, while others are conflicting. In their profession, lawyers have to deal with evidence and proof. Yet the legal concept of evidence is constantly changing, and the debate concerning the distinction between a legal concept of evidence, the ordinary concept of evidence and the concept of evidence in science is far from being settled. What is more, the problem of evidence is central to both epistemology and the philosophy of science, and by extension to our academic thinking on law. In short, legal theorists interest in evidence may include such diverse objects as a bloody knife, sensory data, linguistic entities or psychologically recognized beliefs.

This casebook is intended for use in the Evidence course commonly offered in American law schools. Authored by one of the country's leading Evidence scholars, the book integrates judicial opinions, problems, and scholarly commentary to encourage an interactive approach to doctrine and theory.

This is a guide to the Federal Rules of Evidence that includes all the rules alongside official commentary to those rules in an attractive, readable format. This book is primarily intended to supplement a casebook in a law school Evidence class. It is designed to encourage those learning the law to carefully read rather than skip over this important material. This volume includes: (1) The Federal Rules of Evidence, (2) lightly edited versions of the Advisory Committee Notes that were submitted to Congress with the proposed rules and subsequent amendments to those rules, and (3) Editorial commentary that clarifies ambiguous or outdated provisions and introduces quotes from the pertinent legislative history whenever Congress amended or added an evidence rule. While this volume can accompany any law school Evidence casebook, it is specifically intended to supplement The Law of Evidence by Jeffrey Bellin. This supplement includes the December 2024 amendments. No new amendment(s) are expected until December 2026 at the earliest.