These essays develop a readable, coherent historical and theoretical perspective about problems of proof, evidence, and inferential reasoning in law. They are woven together to present a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to...
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These essays develop a readable, coherent historical and theoretical perspective about problems of proof, evidence, and inferential reasoning in law. They are woven together to present a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation, in which the rules of evidence play a subordinate, though significant, role
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Cover; Half-title; Serious-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Table of cases; 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 Jurist13 The Ratio Decidendi of the Parable of the Prodigal Son; 14 Taking Facts Seriously - Again; 15 Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject; Bibliography; Index
