The new Wigmore : a treatise on evidence : evidentiary privileges /

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Author / Creator:Imwinkelried, Edward J.
Imprint:New York : Aspen Law & Business, c2002-2009.
Description:2 v. (li, 1673 p.) ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Confidential communications -- United States.
Evidence (Law) -- United States.
Confidential communications.
Evidence (Law)
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4673360
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Varying Form of Title:Evidentiary privileges
Other authors / contributors:Friedman, Richard D., 1951-
ISBN:0735528551 (set)
0735527679 (v. 1)
0735528659 (v. 2)
Notes:Kept up to date with cumulative supplements.
Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 1593-1644) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • In general
  • History of the early common law of privileges
  • History of the modern common-law privilege doctrine
  • Dawn of the statutory era of privilege doctrine
  • An evaluation of the instrumental and humanistic rationales for privilege doctrine
  • Absolute communications privileges
  • Conditional communications privileges
  • The absolute topical privilege for military and state secrets
  • Conditional topical privileges
  • Fundamental legisprudential issues in contemporary privilege law
  • Impact of constitutional law
  • Impact of legal globalization
  • Conclusion.