- Publication Date: October 6th, 2016
- ISBN: 9781634602983
- Subject: Evidence
- Series: Concepts and Insights
- Type: Hornbook Treatises
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Description:
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.
“I'm a foreign-educated LL.M. grad from Georgetown Law, and I took the NY Bar exam two years ago. I randomly just recalled that I chanced upon your book, Evidence Law. Concepts and Insights, at the Georgetown library in the middle of bar prep as a resource for Evidence Law (which I have no real background in because I don't have a JD from the States), and I was hooked! It helped me improve my score tremendously. I thought it was so simple, clear and on point, and it ended up being so much more helpful than a mega abbreviated bar prep commercial outline because the concepts actually stuck with me. I can't even imagine how much work it would've taken to come up with a guide that is so concise and effective, so a big thank you to you.”
—Former Evidence Student
