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Evidence Under the Rules: Text, Cases, and Problems, Tenth Edition

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Authors
  • Christopher B. Mueller
  • Laird C. Kirkpatrick
  • Liesa L. Richter
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Book length
1056 pages
Publication Date
2023-01-26
Edition
Tenth Edition
Teaching Materials
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Table of contents
Preface

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Evidence Under the Rules: Text, Cases, and Problems is one of the most widely adopted Evidence casebooks ever published. Structured around the Federal Rules of Evidence, the book contains carefully edited cases and secondary materials, as well as numerous problems that allow students to apply new concepts during classroom exercises or on their own. Text boxes provide interesting background on select cases and additional perspectives on key issues.  

New to the 10th Edition:

  • Additional problems are provided, and often these are combined into the Notes following cases and other materials. These problems generate good classroom discussion, without displacing conversations about the cases and the principles under consideration. 
  • The book is also redesigned, with more colors on the page, and other design features that provide clues to the content of the textual material.   
  • The Note material, found after cases and textual accounts, includes organizational headings that act as signposts calling the attention of students to the key issues. 
  • The book retains the old favorites, like Boys on the Bridge (Problem 2-C), A Papier Mache Man (Problem 3-I), and “If You Want to Stay Healthy (Problem 4_Q). 
  • New end-of-chapter quizzes are included to help in the review of the materials. 
  • A thoroughly updated and expanded Index. 

Benefits for instructors and students: 

  • Introductory text that provides a foundation for understanding the cases and materials that follow. 
  • Numerous problems that treat cutting-edge issues, allowing students to apply important concepts to contemporary evidentiary problems. 
  • A Teacher’s Manual that provides suggestions by the authors for discussing the Notes and cases.  
  • “Comment/Perspective” text boxes that provide broader perspectives to aid in understanding doctrine. 
  • Sidebars that contain photographs and text relating to important cases, offering background on how the evidence issue arose.
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About the authors
Christopher B. Mueller
Henry S. Lindlsey Professor of Procedure and Advocacy
Colorado School of Law

Christopher Mueller is the Henry S. Lindsley Professor of Procedure and Advocacy at the University of Colorado School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty of CU Law School, Christopher Mueller was a professor of law at the Universities of Illinois and Wyoming. His scholarship focuses on evidence law, particularly the rules governing hearsay and impeachment. His interest in hearsay stems from his interest in, as he says, 'the tension between the tendency of lawyers to interpret language grammatically and structurally and the human tendency to speak by indirection, analogy, idiom, and image.' He notes that 'hearsay doctrine is too often interpreted literally, and too often interpreted so as to overlook the senses in which language has operative effect.'

Evidence Under the Rules is in use in more than 100 law schools today. Professor Mueller and Professor Kirkpatrick have also written a five-volume treatise, Federal Evidence, that is updated annually and cited approximately twice a week by appellate courts across the country. They have also completed Modern Evidence, a one-volume source for judges and lawyers, and the student hornbook entitled Evidence, which sells thousands of copies a year and affects the education in evidence of many students across the country. Major media outlets and newspapers across the country have called on Professor Mueller's expertise during the coverage of important national trials. For example, in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing trial of Timothy McVeigh, Professor Mueller appeared several times on The Jim Lehrer Newshour, and was frequently interviewed on National Public Radio. Professor Mueller is currently working on a civil procedure coursebook, and on updating the treatises on federal evidence. In the future, he intends to develop his expertise in complex litigation, and to focus on developments in federal jurisdiction, the reform of federal rules, and developments in privilege law.

Laird C. Kirkpatrick
Louis Harkey Mayo Research Professor
George Washington University of Law

Education B.A., Harvard University J.D., University of Oregon

Background Laird C. Kirkpatrick is the Louis Harkey Mayo Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. He is the former Philip H. Knight Dean of the University of Oregon Law School. He previously served as Counsel to the head of the Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, as a Commissioner ex officio on the United States Sentencing Commission, and as an Assistant United States Attorney.

Professor Kirkpatrick is the coauthor of a widely adopted law school coursebook on evidence, a five-volume treatise on the Federal Rules of Evidence, an evidence hornbook, and several other books. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a former delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates, and former chair of the Evidence Section of the American Association of Law Schools.

Prior to entering law teaching, he served as a trial lawyer in private practice and as director of litigation for a major legal services program. He has previously taught at the University of Michigan, University of London, University of Adelaide, University of Maryland, Suffolk University, and the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He has received several awards for distinguished teaching.

Liesa L. Richter
Floyd & Martha Norris Chair in Law and a George Lynn Cross Research Professor
University of Oklahoma College of Law

Liesa L. Richter is the Floyd & Martha Norris Chair in Law and a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she has taught Evidence and Civil Procedure for more than twenty years. Professor Richter is the Academic Consultant to the Federal Evidence Advisory Committee and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Before joining the academy, she was a commercial litigation lawyer with the firm of King and Spalding, and she clerked for Judge Frank Mays Hull on the Eleventh Circuit and for Judge Jack T. Camp in the Northern District of Georgia. Her scholarly interests have led to leading articles in areas of privilege, hearsay, and character evidence.  
Product Information
Edition
Tenth Edition
Publication date
2023-01-26
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
1056
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9781543859089
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9798886144161
Subject
Evidence
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