There are two required books for this course:

Mueller & Kirkpatrick, EVIDENCE UNDER THE RULES (8th ed. 2014) (Wolters Kluwer); and

Goode & Wellborn, COURTROOM EVIDENCE HANDBOOK: 2016-2017 STUDENT EDITION (West), which I'll refer to as your "Rules Handbook."

Recommended, but not required, is: Arthur Best, EVIDENCE: EXAMPLES & EXPLANATIONS (9th ed. 2015) (Wolters Kluwer).

For our first class session (on Monday morning, August 22, commencing at 9:00 in Room 201), please open your Rules Handbook and read Rules 611 and 612 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. At the very start of our first class session, I'll be showing you a film clip of a courtroom scene that involves the application of those two rules.

Focusing now on your Mueller & Kirkpatrick book, we'll spend our first two class sessions covering pages 4 to 42 (on What Happens at Trial and How Evidence is Admitted and Excluded). When reading those pages, please skip the unduly complex coverage of the "scope-of-direct" rule (pages 22-26) and Problem 1-A (page 26).

The Syllabus for this class, plus a Course Outline that I'm writing for you, will be posted before the first day of class among the "Online Course Materials" on the Law School's website. As soon as they're ready for viewing, I will e-mail you the password for gaining access to my Evidence web page.

I look forward to seeing you on August 22.