The Ohio Rules of Evidence Handbook (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. This copy of the Ohio rules "added value" is a 15 page section on making and responding to common objections (including a discussion of the 15 most common objections and a list of 60 common trial objections) and over 60 pages on evidentiary foundations and impeachment - including 25 examples of foundations for introducing physical, electronic, hearsay, and social media evidence, a discussion on differing standards for authenticating digital evidence, and sample impeachment transcripts.
Professor Barkai is a former Detroit Michigan criminal trial lawyer, a fulltime law professor for more than 50 years - a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii for 45 years and taught at Wayne State University for 5 years. He has taught evidence since 1981 and has been the Director, and now Co-Director, of the Law School's Clinical Program since 1978. He has been a member of the Hawaii Supreme Court's Standing Committee on the Rules of Evidence since 1993. He has a B.B.A, M.B.A, and J.D, all from the University of Michigan. For the past 50 years, he has taught a criminal clinic in which his students try traffic and minor criminal cases under the state student practice rule.
He has published over 135 evidence handbooks for all 50 U.S. states, territories, and affiliated jurisdictions, the federal and military rules of evidence, Asian, South Asian, Pacific Island and African countries, Australian states, Canadian provinces, and the United Kingdom. This handbook, and other similar handbooks, were inspired by handbooks he created in 2019 for a workshop for Pacific Island Judges from American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. He has also published two cartoon captioning contest books on the topics of trial evidence and negotiations & ADR. And don't miss his book on breaking impasses in negotiation and mediation, called Negotiation and Mediation Communication Gambits for Breaking Impasses and More.