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Wigmore on Evidence, 4th Edition

Wigmore on Evidence, 4th Edition

Author: Arthur Best
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. (Online)
ISBN: 10071722
Published In: Subscription-type (Contents updated periodically)
Format: Online , 10933 pages
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Wigmore's great work continues to influence the law of evidence as we move into the 21st century. From doctrinal considerations such as the nature of inference and the exclusionary rules to case analysis involving such up-to-the-minute controversies as DNA "fingerprinting" and patient-psychotherapist privilege, this annually supplemented masterwork continues to provide authoritative guidance again and again. With the most comprehensive coverage you'll find anywhere, Wigmore on Evidence encompasses all this and more:

Admissibility
Relevancy
Circumstantial evidence
Character or disposition as evidence
Opportunity
Alibi
Proving capacity, design, or intent
Proving knowledge, belief, or consciousness
Proving motive, feeling, or passion
Proving identity
Mental derangement or immaturity
Moral depravity
Testimonial recollection
Confessions
Impeachment
Proving bias, corruption, or interest
Contradiction and self-contradiction
Rehabilitation
The hearsay rule and its exceptions
Opinions
Authentication of documents
Privilege
Confidential communications
Burdens and presumptions.

Arthur Best

Education
A.B., Columbia College, 1966
J.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1969

Background
Before entering law teaching, Arthur Best worked in the general counsel’s office of the Federal Communications Commission, as a trial attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, as a project director for Ralph Nader’s Center for Study of Responsive Law, and as a deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. He has published broadly in fields including evidence, torts, advertising regulation, dispute resolution, and lawyers’ ethics. Among his books are When Consumers Complain (Columbia University Press: 1981), Evidence: Examples and Explanations (6th edition, Aspen: 2007), Basic Tort Law (2d edition, Aspen: 2007) (co-author), and annual and semi-annual Wigmore on Evidence Supplement volumes (Aspen: since 1995). Recent articles are “Student Evaluations of Law Teaching Work Well: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree,” 40 Southwestern L. Rev.1 (2007), “Impediments to Reasonable Tort Reform: Lessons from the Adoption of Comparative Negligence,” 40 Ind. L. Rev. 1 (2007), “Internet Yellow Page Advertising,” 55 Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 67 (co-author) (2006), and “Manufacturers’ Responsibility for Harms Suffered by Victims of Counterfeiters: A Modern Elaboration of Causation Rules and Fundamental Tort Law Policies,” 8 Currents: Int’l Trade L.J. 43 (Summer 1999).Best has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the law school and as president of the University’s Faculty Senate. He has represented the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association as a member and chair of law school accreditation inspection teams. He has also served on the board of directors of Colorado Lawyers for the Arts and of the Denver-based Hannah Kahn Dance Company.

Publications

Colorado Evidence 2009-2010 Courtroom Manual, co-authored with Robert Hardaway, Frank Jamison and Glen Weissenberger
LexisNexis, 2009
Wigmore on Evidence Supplement, (Little, Brown and Co., 1995, 1996, Aspen Publishers, 1997, 1998 and twice-yearly since 1999
Impediments to Reasonable Tort Reform: Lessons from the Adoption of Comparative Negligence, 40 Ind. L. Rev. 1, 2007
Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems, (Aspen Publishers, 2003 second edition, 2007
Evidence: Examples and Explanations, (Little, Brown and Co., 1994; second edition Aspen Publishers, 1997, third edition,1999, fourth edition, 2001, fifth edition 2004, sixth edition 2007) (Chinese language edition; Angle Publishing Co., 2002