Texas Evidentiary Foundations

David A. Schlueter is the Hardy Chair Emeritus and Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. Professor Schlueter teaches evidence and trial advocacy and has served as both criminal trial and appellate counsel. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 12 books on procedure and evidence, including the Texas Rules of Evidence Manual and the Texas Rules of Evidence Trial Book. His writings have been cited frequently by state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, and legal commentators. Before joining the faculty at St. Mary's in 1983, he served on active duty as an Army JAGC and for two years as an in-house legal counsel for the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a fellow in the American Law Institute and a Life Fellow in the American Bar Foundation. From 1988 until 2005, he served as the Reporter for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Advisory Committee.

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, including Evidentiary Foundations (11th ed. 2020) (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender), McCormick on Evidence (8th ed. 2020), Uncharged Misconduct Evidence (2020 ed.), The New Wigmore: Evidentiary Privileges (3d ed. 2017), and Evidentiary Foundations (6th ed. 2016) (Michie/LexisNexis). In the 2020 HeinOnLine Top Scholar ranking, he was listed as the most cited Evidence scholar in the United States. 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, the University of Houston, University College Dublin, and China University of Political Science and Law.