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Evidence and the Advocate: A Contextual Approach to Learning Evidence, Second Edition

by Christopher Behan, Antony B. Kolenc

2018, 774 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-5310-0804-8

$195.00

Teacher's Manual available

Evidence and the Advocate

A Contextual Approach to Learning Evidence

by Christopher Behan

Tags: Evidence

Table of Contents (PDF)

Teacher's Manual available

736 pp  $176.00

ISBN 978-1-42248-193-6
eISBN 978-0-32717-504-9

Evidence and the Advocate teaches each rule of evidence using a three pronged approach: (1) a treatise-like explanation of the rule, its purposes, exceptions and foundations; (2) cases, discussion questions and hypothetical problems related to the rule; and (3) an application section in which the students must prepare a courtroom exercise putting the rule into action. This approach forms a teaching template for each rule of evidence.

Each application exercise stands alone and has been designed to illuminate the rule being taught. The application exercises range from simple form-of-question drills to full-fledged evidentiary hearings. Some require minimal preparation, and others require significant out-of-class research and preparation. In the exercises, students serve as attorneys, witnesses, judges, and, in the more involved exercises, as a court of appeals. The exercises build on each other. The initial exercises focus on fundamental advocacy skills such as conducting a direct examination or laying the foundation for an exhibit. Later exercises incorporate these foundational skills for more complicated tasks such as writing a motion, impeaching a witness, or conducting a Daubert hearing on the reliability of expert testimony.

This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.