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Rethinking Evidence: Exploratory Essays (Law in Context)

By William Twining

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521675375, 9780521675376
Open Library ID
OL7751457M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3085734 bytes)
Series
Law in Context
Edition
2
Pages
533\533
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

The Law of Evidence has traditionally been perceived as a dry, highly technical, and mysterious subject. This book argues that problems of evidence in law are closely related to the handling of evidence in other kinds of practical decision-making and other academic disciplines, that it is closely related to common sense and that it is an interesting, lively and accessible subject. These essays develop a readable, coherent historical and theoretical perspective about problems of proof, evidence, and inferential reasoning in law. Although each essay is self-standing, 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. This revised and enlarged edition includes a revised introduction, the best-known essays in the first edition, and new chapters on narrative and argumentation, teaching evidence, and evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject.

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