The new Wigmore
Subtitle: a treatise on evidence : evidentiary privileges
By: Edward J. Imwinkelried ; Richard D. Friedman, general editor.
Contributors: Friedman, Richard D., 1951-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780735593954; 9780735593961; 9780735584761
Subjects: Confidential communications -- United States; Evidence (Law) -- United States
Other titles: Evidentiary privileges
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In general; title: History of the early common law of privileges; title: History of the modern common-law privilege doctrine : the dominance of the instrumental rationale; title: Dawn of the statutory era of privilege doctrine; title: An evaluation of the instrumental and humanistic rationales for privilege doctrine; title: Absolute communications privileges : whether a particular relationship warrants such a privilege; title: Conditional communications privileges; title: Absolute topical privilege for military and state secrets; title: Conditional topical privileges; title: Fundamental legisprudential issues in contemporary privilege law; title: Impact of constitutional law; title: Impact of legal globalization.