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Federal Rules of Evidence: With Advisory Committee Notes and Legislative History 2026

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  • Christopher B. Mueller
  • Laird C. Kirkpatrick
  • Liesa L. Richter
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400 pages
Publication Date
2026-05-29
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A long-time leader in Evidence courses for its authority, timeliness, and flexibility, and acclaimed for its ease of use, Mueller, Kirkpatrick, and Richter’s Federal Rules of Evidence, 2026 Edition continues to provide the latest developments in evidence law. Part 1 sets forth the rules themselves; Part 2 sets forth the rules followed by the Advisory Committee Notes and Legislative History, which are important for their interpretation; Part 3 sets forth the proposed-but-rejected rules; Part 4 sets forth the Enabling Act; Part 5 sets forth any proposed amendments to the rules that are pending; and Part 6 sets forth new developments.

New to the 2026 Edition:

  • The Federal Rules as amended through December 1, 2025
  • Proposed amendments to Rule 801(d)(1)(A) and Rule 609, as well as proposed new Rule 707 on machine-generated evidence
  • The Advisory Committee Notes that accompany the Rules
  • The legislative history of the Federal Rules, including earlier Advisory Committee Notes and selected Congressional Reports
  • Proposed-but-rejected provisions on privileges, which Congress refused to enact when the Rules were first promulgated
  • Discussion of recent Supreme Court decisions in Samia v. United States, Smith v. Arizona, and Diaz v. United States
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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 SCHOOL 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 School of Law 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.  
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Publication date
2026-05-29
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
400
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9798899639227
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9798899639234
Subject
Evidence
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