Synopsis

Evidence Under the Rules, Sixth Edition, frames engaging problems and seminal cases in an eminently clear organization that adapts to a variety of teaching approaches.

Smart and unassuming, Evidence Under the Rules continues to feature:

• a respected and well-known author team—Mueller and Kirkpatrick are experts and trusted authors in the field of evidence
• a logical and clear organization structured around the Federal Rules of Evidence
• effectively balanced pedagogy—lucid exposition, problems, and carefully edited cases
• numerous and engaging problems that give students practice applying the Federal Rules of Evidence
• focused case excerpts that home in on the relevant evidentiary aspects of the case
• a flexible organization that adapts to a variety of teaching approaches
• a detailed Teacher's Manual
  • a new guide to excerpts from the media demonstrating the FRE being applied—or misapplied
• a companion 2008 Statutory and Case Supplement

The Sixth Edition offers renewed timeliness and excellence, through:

• numerous new and highly teachable problems
• A DVD, available to professors for classroom use, featuring movie clips that illustrate and dramatize important points of evidence
• new material on post-Crawford developments regarding the right of confrontation
• coverage of the 2006 amendments to the FRE 404, 408, 606, and 609
• revised treatment of scientific evidence
• recent and significant case law

For a well-constructed problem-based casebook that won’t throw a veil over the Federal Rules of Evidence, examine the Sixth Edition of Evidence Under The Rules. You’ll discover that it supports your teaching.