Arthur Best has been a member of the Sturm College of Law faculty since 1988. He has published broadly in fields including evidence, torts, advertising regulation, dispute resolution, and lawyers’ ethics. Among his books are When Consumers Complain (Columbia University Press: 1981), Evidence: Examples and Explanations (Aspen Publishing: 14^thEdition, 2026), Basic Tort Law (Aspen Publishing: 6^th Edition, 2022) (co-author), Evidence: Practice, Problems, and Rules (Aspen Publishing: 4^th Edition, 2024), and frequent Wigmore on Evidence Supplement volumes (Wolters Kluwer: since 1995).

Recent articles are “Lying Lawyers and Recumbent Regulators,” 49 Ind. L. Rev. 1 (2015), “Winking at the Jury: ‘Implicit Vouching’ versus the Limits on Opinions about Credibility,” 55 Ariz. L. Rev. 265 (2013) (co-author), “Student Evaluations of Law Teaching Work Well: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree,” 40 Southwestern L. Rev. 1 (2007), “Impediments to Reasonable Tort Reform: Lessons from the Adoption of Comparative Negligence,” 40 Ind. L. Rev. 1 (2007).

Best has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Sturm College of Law at University of Denver and as president of the University’s Faculty Senate. He has represented the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association as a member and chair of law school accreditation inspection teams. He has also served on the board of directors of Colorado Lawyers for the Arts and of the Denver-based Hannah Kahn Dance Company.