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Examples & Explanations for California Evidence, Third Edition

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  • Chris Chambers Goodman
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510 pages
Publication Date
2025-01-24
Edition
Third Edition
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Preface
A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples & Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis.

Here’s why you need an E&E to help you study throughout the semester:
  • Clear explanations of each class topic, in a conversational, funny style.
  • Features hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with corresponding analysis so you can use them during the semester to test your understanding, and again at exam time to help you review.
  • It offers coverage that works with ALL the major casebooks, and suits any class on a given topic.
The Examples & Explanations series has been ranked the most popular study aid among law students because it is equally as helpful from the first day of class through the final exam.

New to the Third Edition:
  • More real-world hypotheticals, based on recent California court cases.
  • Updated flowcharts and graphics.
  • Expanded section on the Confrontation Clause, incorporating new USSCT authorities.
  • New section on the racialization of character evidence and prohibitions on creative expressions.
  • Updates from the USSCT on expert testimony and Sanchez error.
  • New notes on the implications of AI on select evidentiary issues.
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Summary of Contents

Contents 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Chapter 1 Introduction to Evidence, Relevance, and Prejudice 
Chapter 2 The Character Evidence Exclusion Rules
Chapter 3 Other Policy Exclusions for Relevant Evidence 
Chapter 4 The Hearsay Rule 
Chapter 5 The Confrontation Clause and Unavailability 
Chapter 6 Hearsay Exceptions That Apply Only When the Declarant Is Unavailable 
Chapter 7 Hearsay Exceptions: Party Admissions and Prior Statements of Witnesses 
Chapter 8 Other Hearsay Exceptions 
Chapter 9 Witness Testimony Foundations 
Chapter 10 Opinion Testimony: Lay and Expert 
Chapter 11 The Burden of Proof, Presumptions, and Judicial Notice 
Chapter 12 Authentication and the Secondary Evidence Rule 
Chapter 13 Introduction to Privileges; Professional Relationship Privileges
Chapter 14 Personal, Relationship, Counseling, and Other Privileges 
Conclusion 

Table of Hearsay Exceptions with Crossover to the Federal Rules of Evidence 
Index 
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About the authors
Chris Chambers Goodman

Professor Chris Chambers Goodman is a Professor of Law at the Caruso School of Law. She teaches Evidence, Constitutional Law, Racial Justice, Trial Practice and Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law. She writes on equal protection topics, including implicit bias, algorithmic bias, affirmative action, preferences, diversity and racial privacy, as well as evidentiary and criminal law issues.

While at Stanford Law School, Professor Goodman served on the board of directors for the Annual Women of Color and the Law Conference, worked as a teaching assistant in the political science department, and was an assistant editor for a new journal on gender issues. After law school, she worked as an associate at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Gipson, Hoffman & Pancione, engaging in civil litigation in state and federal courts. In 1995, Professor Goodman began teaching at UCLA, and created and taught a course in lawyering skills for public interest attorneys. She joined the Caruso faculty in 2001.

Professor Goodman was elected to the prestigious American Law Institute in 2023. She also serves on Board of the the National Conference of Women' Bar Associations, previously as Vice President of Finance, and Treasurer. Professor Goodman served as the Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion, and Outreach of the Los Angeles County Bar Association for two years. She is a former chair of both the AALS Litigation Section and of the Evidence Section. She served on the board of Schools on Wheels, a local nonprofit that provides tutors and school supplies for homeless youths, and currently serves on the board of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. She has been an officer of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, the 2016-2017 President of California Women Lawyers, and the 2017-18 President of its Foundation. Professor Goodman is a frequent speaker on the subject of diversity, equity, inclusion, and implicit and algorithmic bias.

She is the author of California Evidence, in Aspen Publishing's Examples and Explanations series, as well as the Seventh edition of the Mendez, Goodman and Mainero Evidence casebook with West Academic Publishing.
Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2025-01-24
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
510
Paperback
9798892073622
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9798892073639
Subject
Family Law
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