William Twining

Rethinking Evidence

Exploratory Essays
Herausgeber: Mccrudden, Christopher; Twining, William

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 854g
• ISBN-13: 9780521675376
• ISBN-10: 0521675375
• Artikelnr.: 21770608

Autorenporträt

William Twining is Quain Professor of Juisprudence Emeritus at University College London, and a regular Visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law. His writings on evidence include Analysis of Evidence (2nd edn, Cambridge University Press 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: The story of a project
2. Taking facts seriously
3. The rationalist tradition of evidence scholarship
4. Some scepticism about some scepticisms
5. Identification and misidentification in legal processes: redefining the problem
6. What is the law of evidence?
7. Rethinking evidence
8. Legal reasoning and argumentation
9. Stories and argument
10. Lawyers' stories
11. Narrative and generalizations in argumentation about questions of fact
12. Reconstructing the truth about Edith Thompson: the Shakespearean and the Jurist (with R. Weis)
13. The ratio decidendi of the parable of the prodigal son
14. Taking facts seriously - again
15. Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject.