Evidence Law: Practice, Problems, and Policy, Second Edition

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Informed by decades of experience in the classroom and the courtroom, Evidence Law: Practice, Problems, and Policy by Professor Laurie L. Levenson and Justice Brian M. Hoffstadt supports students with a clear, consistent, and engaging approach to understanding and practicing evidence law, while offering instructors a comprehensive and stimulating teaching tool. This book provides a suitable foundation for students to learn and apply federal and state evidence laws, both in litigation and transactional practices. Students and instructors have responded positively to the book’s unique step-by-step approach of (1) providing the rule; (2) explaining the basis for the rule; (3) demonstrating how it is applied; (4) discussing any complications in its application; and (5) providing short, carefully edited cases regarding the rule. Cases in the book serve to affirm the rule, not provide subtle or exceptional applications of it. The second edition includes even more support and value for students with over 700 realistic practice exercises presented in Aspen Courses, an interactive digital environment. New to the Second Edition: Included in the casebook are amended and/or new Federal Rules of Evidence. Points to Ponder prompts conclude every chapter, engaging students in critical thinking about the application of the evidence rules in our evolving social context. Coverage and examples of issues arising in the context of AI-generated evidence and electronic record keeping. Expanded discussion of the impact of due process rights under the 14th Amendment. Included with the casebook, students and instructors gain access to Levenson and Hoffstadt's Practicing Evidence Law: Interactive Exercises, an online Aspen Course with over seven hundred interactive practice exercises. Author-written and student-tested, these realistic practice and review questions correlate with specific topics in the casebook through the Test Your Understanding prompts in each chapter. Students benefit from feedback explaining why their response is correct or incorrect, as well as progress analytics indicating specific areas for further study. New (online) case studies of primary source material support Chapter 16, Pulling it All Together, encouraging students to apply what they have learned about evidence and to demonstrate the interconnectivity of the rules. (Available in Casebook Connect Study Center or Professor Resources on product page of aspenpublishing.com.) Professors and students will benefit from: A step-by-step approach for understanding the rules of evidence. Examples of contemporary challenges in applying the evidence rules. Short readings on cutting-edge areas of evidence law. Over 700 practice exercises and review questions that support students in understanding the rules and pinpointing areas for focused study. Critical thinking prompts for considering the rules of evidence in their social context. Charts and diagrams of evidence rules. Thorough and clear presentation of hearsay, its exceptions, and its interaction with the right of confrontation. Comparisons with the rules for major state jurisdictions. Availability of sample class syllabi, a teacher’s manual with additional materials for use, and PowerPoint slides.