This course teaches the standards that regulate the admissibility of proof at judicial proceedings placing special emphasis on the Federal Rules, California rules, and general principles of evidence law. Students will study burdens of proof, relevancy, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, policy-based exclusionary rules, legal privileges, expert and lay opinions, scientific, forensic, and demonstrative evidence, impeachment, authentication, character, and habit evidence, and presumptions.

Who Can Take this Course?

• Current students who have successfully passed the First-Year Law Students Examination (FYLSX)
• Students who transferred their First-Year courses from an ABA or Committee Accredited law school.