Evidence: Treatises and eDatabases

Also in West Academic Study Aids Subscription. Topics include preparing and presenting evidence, cross-examination, and the procedure for admitting and excluding evidence. Includes tables of cases, statutes, and rules.

Succinct yet scholarly analysis of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Integrates theory with a practical understanding of how the rules operate.

Westlaw-Updated annually. Analytical treatment of the Federal Rules of Evidence, organized on a rule-by-rule approach.

Westlaw-Updated annually. Multi-volume treatise covers each rule based on analysis of many cases. Includes Advocacy Notes, which consist of reference to state authority, frequently conflicting, and representing areas of the law of evidence not explored completely by federal case law. Committee Notes help users understand rule changes.

Two volume treatise on the practice and theory of evidence, current issues, and leading case law. Covers the Federal Rules of Evidence as well as state law in jurisdictions not conforming to the federal rules.

CCH Intelliconnect and Westlaw.
Updated annually. Covers selected rules of unlimited admissibility, evidentiary privileges including attorney-client privilege, expert evidence, evidence of other mis-conduct, and impeachment and rehabilitation. This publication is a present-day counterpart to the classic Wigmore on Evidence treatise.

Lexis-Updated regularly. An in-depth treatise on the federal law of evidence. Analysis focuses on the current state of the law, organized by circuits. Also analyzes unsettled evidence issues. Useful table about “State Adaptations of the Federal Rules of Evidence.”

CCH Intelliconnect
Updated semi-annually. Wide-ranging treatise on evidence encompasses many topics from admissibility to testimonial evidence. Analyzes the Federal Rules of Evidence and state evidence rules. Wigmore was highly influential in his field. He published the first edition in 1904. Subsequent editions maintain his standards and comprehensive range.