There are two required books for this course:

MUELLER, KIRKPATRICK & RICHTER, EVIDENCE UNDER THE RULES (10th ed. 2023) (Aspen) (ISBN 9781543859089) (don't bother purchasing the "access code," whatever that is; just buy the book); and

GOODE & WELLBORN, COURTROOM EVIDENCE HANDBOOK—2024-2025 STUDENT EDITION (West) (ISBN 9798892090674).

The Syllabus for this class is attached to this posting. Also attached is my Course Outline.

For our first class session—on Wednesday morning, August 14, commencing at 8:55 in Room 201—please open GOODE & WELLBORN (which I'll refer to as 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 will show you a film clip of a courtroom scene featuring the application of those two rules. To help you understand what's happening in that film clip, please read pages 14-17 of my Course Outline, which provides a short explication of Rules 611 and 612.

Focusing now on your MUELLER & KIRKPATRICK book, we'll spend our first two class sessions covering pages 4 to 41 (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 22-25) and Problem 1-A (page 25).

Whenever I give you a reading assignment in MUELLER & KIRKPATRICK, I will also give you a parallel reading assignment in my Course Outline. For our first two days of class, please read pages 4 through 29 of my Course Outline.

Finally, please read my Syllabus. It will tell you how I plan to teach this course and what topics I'll be covering.

My course web page will be on Blackboard. It will be up and running before our first day of class.

I look forward to seeing you on August 14 at 8:55 in Room 201.