Federal Rules of Evidence Manual

Michael M. Martin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former Dean at Fordham University Law School. Previously, he taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Washington, and the University of Chicago law schools. Professor Martin was a Consultant to the New York Law Revision Commission preparing the New York Code of Evidence, and to the New York Law Revision Commission project studying statutes of repose for product liability claims. The long-time Evidence Law columnist in the New York Law Journal and author of evidence law treatises and casebooks, he was also Reporter to the Speedy Trial Planning Group of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Martin received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Iowa and a B.Litt. in Law from Oxford University. He is a Member of the American Law Institute.

Daniel J. Capra is Philip Reed Professor of Law at Fordham University Law School. He received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the Reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence. The author of numerous casebooks and articles on evidence law, Professor Capra is a frequent lecturer before judges on matters of evidence on behalf of the Federal Judicial Center.

Stephen A. Saltzburg is the Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School and is a leading national expert on evidence, criminal procedure, and trial advocacy. His numerous writings include the FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE MANUAL, a six-volume treatise on the federal rules of evidence. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence, and a former Reporter for, and member of, the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Before taking his current teaching position, he taught for many years at the University of Virginia and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also served as an Ex-Officio Member of the United States Sentencing Commission and as the Director of the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force for the U.S. Treasury Department.

Jessica Berch joined the ASU Law faculty in 2017, after visiting ASU the previous year. Before that, she was an Associate Professor at Concordia Law School and served as a Visiting Associate Professor at Southwestern Law School. Professor Berch teaches a variety of courses, including civil procedure, advanced civil procedure, federal courts, constitutional law, conflict of laws, evidence, and constitutional criminal procedure.