California Evidentiary Foundation, Fourth Edition is the first new hardbound edition since 2000, incorporating into the text more than 150 pages of supplement entries that were added to the Third Edition after its original publication. In addition, Professors Imwinkelried and Leach have carefully reviewed and updated the entire publication to assure that it provides thorough, complete, and up-to-date coverage of recent statutory changes, case law, and practice developments.

California Evidentiary Foundations takes the abstract principles of evidence and organizes them into concise statements and illustrate their uses with sample transcripts of the elements being applied in the courtroom.

California Evidentiary Foundations helps attorneys focus their case around a theme, and understand the theories behind proving up evidence in both civil and criminal cases.

This concise manual includes complete references to the California Evidence Code, key cases, legislative history and citations to secondary authorities such as Jefferson, Witkin, C.E.B. texts.