Evidentiary Foundations

Evidentiary Foundations is a valuable supplement in any Evidence or Trial Practice course. It covers all the major evidentiary doctrines, and for each doctrine the text's treatment of the doctrine does three things:

First, the text provides a narrative description of the doctrine. The narrative explains the policy rationale for the doctrine, quotes the governing Federal Rule of Evidence provision, and cites leading precedents.

Second, the text breaks each doctrine down into a list of the es...