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.

Stephen Saltzburg is the Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches trial advocacy, litigation, and professional responsibility. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Evidence, and former Reporter for and Member of the Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. He currently serves as an American Bar Association representative to the Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Evidence and as Chair of the Civil Justice Reform Act Committee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Professor Saltzburg served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and was an Ex-Officio Member of the United States Sentencing Commission. He also was the Director of the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force for the U.S. Treasury Department.

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.