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Analytical Approach To Evidence: Text, Problems and Cases, Seventh Edition

Authors
  • Ronald J. Allen
  • David S. Schwartz
  • Michael S. Pardo
  • Alex Stein
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
Teaching Materials
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Description
Table of contents
Preface

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A problem-based Evidence coursebook that presents the Federal Rules of Evidence in context, illuminates the rules’ underlying theories and perspectives, and provides a fully updated and systematic account of the law in a student-friendly hornbook-style format. The material is accompanied with straightforward and systematic explanations. Lively discussion and interesting problems (rather than numerous appellate case excerpts) engage students in understanding the principles, policies, and debates that surround evidence law. The book also contains self-assessment sections in each chapter that teach students how to identify and resolve legal issues and succeed in the final exam. To sum up: this book stands out as “all in one”: it gives students of evidence an up-to-date comprehensive account of the law; it explains complex evidentiary issues in a straightforward and systematic fashion; and it also tells students what their exam will look like and how to succeed in it.

New to the Seventh Edition:

  • A new case file to introduce numerous evidence issues throughout the semester, with spin-off problems in each chapter.
  • Updated doctrine, including application of evidence rules to electronic evidence and the online environment.

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • An opening case file introducing students to the process of analyzing evidence in terms of the essential elements of a legal dispute, serving as an effective introduction to much of the course to follow
  • A wide range of real-world problems exposes students to the depth and complexity of the Rules of Evidence
  • Every chapter addresses basic rules interpretation, essential policy, and connects theory to practice
  • Assessment problems (modeled on exam questions) at the end of each chapter, including answers with explanations

Teaching materials Include:

  • Updated and streamlined Teacher’s Manual, including sample syllabi for both 4- and 3-credit courses, transition guide for each chapter, teaching guidance, and answers to all the problems in the book
  • Problems Supplement that includes most problems deleted from prior editions
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About the authors
Ronald J. Allen
Northwestern University

Professor Allen is the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law at Northwestern University, in Chicago, IL. He did his undergraduate work in mathematics at Marshall University and studied law at the University of Michigan. He is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of evidence, procedure, and constitutional law. He has published five books and approximately eighty articles in major law reviews. The New York Times referred to him as one of nation#39;s leading experts on evidence and procedure. He has been quoted in national news outlets hundreds of times, and appears regularly on national broadcast media on matters ranging from complex litigation to constitutional law to criminal justice. Professor Allen began his career at the State University of New York, and has held professorships at the University of Iowa and Duke University prior to coming to Northwestern. He has lectured on his research at distinguished universities across the world, among them Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Duke University, Oxford University, University of London, Leiden University, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of Edinburgh, University of British Columbia, the University of Paris (Sorbonne), Parma University, Turin University, Pavia University, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and UNAM, Mexico City. In 1991, he was the University Distinguished Visiting Scholar, at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. One of his books has been translated into Chinese by the Ministry of Education of the People#39;s Republic of China, and he has been invited to China for a series of lectures in the summer of 2004 and the spring of 2005. He has also been invited to lecture by the governments of Mexico and TrinidadTobago. For the last ten years, his research has focused on the nature of juridical proof. He has been involved as a consultant on numerous cases involving complex litigation in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the American Law Institute, has chaired the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and was Vice-chair of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence Committee of the American Bar Association#39;s Criminal Justice Section. He has served as a Commissioner of the Illinois Supreme Court, assigned to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. He is presently on the Boards of the Constitutional Rights Foundation-Chicago, and the Yeager Society of Scholars of Marshall University. He is, or has served, on various boards and committees of civic and cultural institutions in Chicago.

David S. Schwartz
University of Wisconsin

David Schwartz joined the UW Law faculty in fall 1999, after 12 years of law practice in which he specialized in employment discrimination and civil rights litigation. For the three years just prior to joining the Law School faculty, Prof. Schwartz was Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, in Los Angeles. Previously, Prof. Schwartz was in private practice in San Francisco, representing plaintiffs in employment cases. After graduating law school, Prof. Schwartz clerked for the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Schwartz currently teaches Civil Procedure I, Evidence, and Constitutional Law, and he has also taught Civil Rights Litigation, Employment Law and Remedies. His scholarly interests currently focus on constitutional law and the civil litigation system.

Michael Pardo
Professor of Law
Georgetown University

Michael S. Pardo’s teaching and scholarship are in the areas of evidence, criminal procedure, civil procedure, philosophy of law, and law and neuroscience. His current research focuses on philosophical issues pertaining to evidence, procedure, and legal proof. Professor Pardo’s publications include two books and more than fifty articles, essays, and book chapters. His books include:&emAn Analytical Approach to Evidenceem&(6th edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2016, with Allen et al) and&emMinds, Brains, and Lawem&(Oxford University Press, 2013, with Patterson). In addition, he is a co-editor of&emPhilosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience&em(Oxford University Press, 2016, with Patterson). Professor Pardo’s articles have appeared in several distinguished journals, including the&emVanderbilt, William & Mary, Boston College, Illinois, Northwestern, Texas, and Iowa Law Reviewsem, and in&emLegal Theory, Law & Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Neuroethics, Criminal Law & Philosophyem, and the&emJournal of Legal Studiesem, among others. Before coming to Georgetown, Professor Pardo was on the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he was the Henry Upson Sims Professor and a founder and co-director of the law school’s Program on Cross-Disciplinary Legal Studies. He has also served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Evidence.

Alex Stein
Justice
Cardozo

Justice Alex Stein joined the Israel Supreme Court in 2018. Since then, he has delivered a number of decisions shaping the Israeli law in multiple areas that include evidence. He was appointed to the Court after a long and successful academic career during which he served as a Professor of Law and Vice-Dean at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, as well as a Professor of Law at Cardozo and Brooklyn Law Schools in New York City, and taught as a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard, Yale and Columbia law schools, among others. Justice Stein authors five books, two of which – Foundations of Evidence Law (Oxford University Press – 2005) and Tort Liability under Uncertainty (Oxford University Press – 2001) (with Ariel Porat) – are considered path-breaking and widely discussed in the literature. His publications also include eighty articles many of which have appeared in the world’s leading journals such as iHarvard Law Reviewi, iColumbia Law Reviewi, iUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Reviewi, iMichigan Law Reviewi, iVirginia Law Reviewi, iGeorgetown Law Journali, iNorthwestern University Law Reviewi, iCornell Law Reviewi, iTexas Law Reviewi, iVanderbilt Law Reviewi and iOxford Journal of Legal Studies. iWhile on the bench, Justice Stein continues to contribute to legal scholarship by publishing books and articles. He co-edited the Oxford University Press anthology, Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law (2021) and will soon publish an article on iProbabilism in Legal Interpretationi that will appear in the iIowa Law Review. iJustice Stein’s areas of expertise include evidence, torts, general legal theory, and economic analysis of law. He was invited to speak in these areas in academic events and judicial conferences across the world and his opinions have been cited by international media outlets that included iNew York Timesi, iFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungi, and iNaturei.

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Edition
Seventh Edition
Publication date
2021-09-14
Copyright Year
2021
Pages
1072
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9781543810639
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9781543844153
Subject
Evidence
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