Just the Rules: Federal Rules of Evidence ibook

Updated in April 2024 to contain the amendment made in Dec. 2023.
“Just The Rules: Federal Rules of Evidence” (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. This book contains the Federal Rules of Evidence, a cross reference guide that shows which FREs cite other FRE, material on the history and restyling of the FREs, a state rules of evidence chart, and the FRE amendments proposed for Dec. 2024.

A companion book, Federal Rules of Evidence Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations, is also available on Amazon. In addition to the just the rules of evidence, that handbook also contains a 16-page section on Making and Responding to Common Objections as well as a 61-page section on Evidentiary Foundations and Impeachment.

The author is an American law professor who was a Michigan criminal trial lawyer and has been a full-time law professor for over 50 years - a professor at the University of Hawaii Law School for the past 46 years and at Wayne State Law School in Detroit Michigan for 5 years in the 1970s. His students, under his supervision, in Hawaii and Michigan, have represented real clients in real cases every year he has been teaching. He has taught evidence since 1981 and has been the Director, and now Co-Director, of his law school's Clinical Program since 1978. In that program, under court rules, law students are allowed to appear in court to represent individual clients, government organizations, and NGOs, He has been a member of the Hawaii Supreme Court's Standing Committee on the Rules of Evidence since 1993. For the past 50 plus years, he has taught a criminal clinic in which his students try traffic and minor criminal cases under the state student practice rule.

He has published more than 115 other low-cost evidence handbooks (currently available exclusively on Amazon) for all 50 U.S. states and territories, and as well as American Samoa, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Kosrae, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Pohnpei, Yap, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. He has published other handbooks such as this one for other jurisdictions that use evidence acts, including Australia (including books for New South Wales and Victoria), Bangladesh, Canada (including books for Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario), Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, the U.K, and many other countries. He offers on Amazon two cartoon captioning contest books on the topics of trial evidence as well as negotiation & ADR. And don’t miss his Amazon book on what to say to break impasses in negotiation and mediation, called Negotiation and Mediation Communication Gambits for Breaking Impasses and More.