New York Evidentiary Foundations

Edward J. Imwinkelried is the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus at UC Davis School of Law. A nationally recognized expert on subjects such as DNA typing, forensic psychiatry, and laser techniques for fingerprint detection, Professor Imwinkelried is the author of more than 200 books and other publications. He is frequently called upon for advice on privileges and the admissibility of evidence of other crimes, and his treatise Scientific Evidence is considered authoritative. Professor Imwinkelried served as an army lawyer in the XXIV Corps and 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam in 1971–1972. He went on to become a lecturer on evidence, criminal procedure, crimes and trial advocacy in the Criminal Law Division of the Judge Advocate General’s School in Virginia, then a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and Washington University before coming to UC Davis in 1985. He has also taught as a Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University, the University of Illinois, University of Houston, and University College Dublin.

The Hon. Harold J. Baer, Jr. is U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. His distinguished career in New York law has included a decade (1982-1992) as a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, serving twice as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District, where in 1965-1966 he was Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. He was also First Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the Criminal Division in the Southern District during 1970-1972. Judge Baer graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hobart College in 1954 and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1957.

E. Stewart Jones, Jr., Director of the New York State Trial lawyers Association is in practice at the firm of E. Stewart Jones in Troy. One of the outstanding lawyers in New York, Mr. Jones is a prolific lecturer and author for the New York State Bar Association. He is also a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers, and the Inner Circle of Advocates, and is a Master of the American Inns of Court. Jones received his J.D. from Albany Law School.

David M. Epstein is an associate professor of law at New York Law School, where he currently teaches Legal Practice and Drafting: Contracts. During his law school career he has also taught Legal Reasoning, Writing and Research and Principles of Legal Analysis, as well as upper-level electives. He has also served as the Law School's research specialist, aiding students with their basic legal research skills. Professor Epstein is the author of the current edition of the seven-volume Eckstrom's Licensing in Foreign and Domestic Operations, and a co-author of New York Evidence Courtroom Manual, Teacher's Handbook to The Lawyer's Craft, and New York Evidentiary Foundations.