About the Authors
Arthur Best
Education
A.B., Columbia College, 1966
J.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1969
Background
Before entering law teaching, Arthur Best worked in the general counsel’s office of the Federal Communications Commission, as a trial attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, as a project director for Ralph Nader’s Center for Study of Responsive Law, and as a deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. He has published broadly in fields including evidence, torts, advertising regulation, dispute resolution, and lawyers’ ethics. Among his books are When Consumers Complain (Columbia University Press: 1981), Evidence: Examples and Explanations (6th edition, Aspen: 2007), Basic Tort Law (2d edition, Aspen: 2007) (co-author), and annual and semi-annual Wigmore on Evidence Supplement volumes (Aspen: since 1995). Recent articles are “Student Evaluations of Law Teaching Work Well: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree,” 40 Southwestern L. Rev.1 (2007), “Impediments to Reasonable Tort Reform: Lessons from the Adoption of Comparative Negligence,” 40 Ind. L. Rev. 1 (2007), “Internet Yellow Page Advertising,” 55 Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 67 (co-author) (2006), and “Manufacturers’ Responsibility for Harms Suffered by Victims of Counterfeiters: A Modern Elaboration of Causation Rules and Fundamental Tort Law Policies,” 8 Currents: Int’l Trade L.J. 43 (Summer 1999).Best has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the law school and as president of the University’s Faculty Senate. He has represented the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association as a member and chair of law school accreditation inspection teams. He has also served on the board of directors of Colorado Lawyers for the Arts and of the Denver-based Hannah Kahn Dance Company.
Publications
- Colorado Evidence 2009-2010 Courtroom Manual, co-authored with Robert Hardaway, Frank Jamison and Glen Weissenberger
LexisNexis, 2009 - Wigmore on Evidence Supplement, (Little, Brown and Co., 1995, 1996; Aspen Publishers, 1997, 1998 and twice-yearly since 1999
- Impediments to Reasonable Tort Reform: Lessons from the Adoption of Comparative Negligence, 40 Ind. L. Rev. 1, 2007
- Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems, (Aspen Publishers, 2003; second edition, 2007
- Evidence: Examples and Explanations, (Little, Brown and Co., 1994; second edition Aspen Publishers, 1997; third edition,1999; fourth edition, 2001; fifth edition 2004; sixth edition 2007) (Chinese language edition; Angle Publishing Co., 2002
David W. Barnes
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., M.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
A.B., Dartmouth College
Background
David Jake Barnes is the Seton Hall University Distinguished Research Professor Law. Professor Barnes began teaching at Seton Hall in 1999 after being the Charles W. Delaney Professor of Law at the University of Denver and teaching with the economics and the law faculties at Syracuse University. Professor Barnes’ educational background includes undergraduate study at Dartmouth College and Wellesley College, an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
His casebooks and treatises include The Law of Intellectual Property; Basic Tort Law: Cases, Problems, Statutes, and Materials; Cases and Materials on Law and Economics; Statistical Evidence in Litigation: Methodology, Procedure, and Practice; and Statistics as Proof: Fundamentals of Quantitative Evidence. He has written dozens of articles in various areas of law including torts, intellectual property, contracts, antitrust, environmental law, evidence, remedies, and the use of statistical and scientific methods in court.
CASE BOOKS
- The Law of Intellectual Property, Aspen Publishers, Inc. (2006) (C. Nard and M. Madison)
- Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, Problems, and Materials, Aspen Publishers, Inc. (2003 and subsequent editions) (A. Best)
- Cases and Materials on Law and Economics (with Teacher's Manual), West Publishing Co. (1992) (L. Stout)
- The Economics of Property Rightsw and Nuisance Law (with Teacher's Manual), West Publishing Co. (1992) (L. Stout)
- The Economic Analysis of Tort Law (with Teacher's Manual), West Publishing Co. (1992) (L. Stout)
- The Economics of Contract Law (with Teacher's Manual), West Publishing Co. (1992) (L. Stout)
- The Economics of Constitutional Law and Public Choice (with Teacher's Manual), West Publishing Co. (1992) (L. Stout)
- Statistical Evidence in Litigation: Methodology, Procedure, and Practice, Little, Brown and Co. (1986 and updated supplements) (J. Conley)
- Statistics as Proof: Fundamentals of Quantitative Evidence, Little, Brown and Co. (1983)
ARTICLES
- Misappropriation of Trademark, 9 North Carolina J. Law and Technology, 2008
- Trademark Externalities, 10 Yale J. Law and Technology, 2007
- A New Economics of Trademarks, 5 Northwestern J. Technology and Intellectual Property 22, 2006
- An Alternative Torts Model of Secondary Copyright Liability, 55 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 867, 2005
- Imwinkleried’s Argument for Normative Ethical Testimony, 33 J. Law, Medicine & Ethics 234, 2005
- A Unifying Theory of Contract Damages, 55 Syracuse L. Rev. 495, 2005, (D. Zalesne)
- Classic Fair Use in Trademark: Confusion about Defenses, 20 Santa Clara Computer and High Tech L. J. 833 (2004) (T. Laky)
- The Shadow Code, 56 South Carolina L. Rev. 93, 2004, (D. Zalesne)
- General Acceptance versus Scientific Soundness: Mad Scientists in the Courtroom, 31 Florida State L. Rev. 303, 2004
- Remedies for Imperfect Transactions in Contracts and Torts, 38 San Diego L. Rev. 193, 2001
- The Net Expectation Interest in Contract Damages, 49 Emory L.J. 1137, 1999
- Antitrust, The Rule of Reason, and Democracy: A Letter from Justice William O. Douglas, 14 Rev. of Industrial Organization 115, 1999
- Gender, Risk Preferences, and Negotiation Performance, 5 Michigan J. on Gender and Law 299, 1999, (C. Craver)
- The Anatomy of Contract Damages and Efficient Breach Theory, 6 So. Calif. Interdisciplinary L. J. 397, 1998
- An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Certain Linguistic Practices Concerning Admission of Evidence, 91 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. 637, 1997, (sub nom Jake Barnes)
