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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Presents a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
