Rethinking evidence : exploratory essays / William Twining.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Twining, William L., author.

Series:

• Law in context.
• Law in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Evidence (Law)--Great Britain--History.
• Evidence (Law)--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 511 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 chapters on narrative and argumentation, teaching evidence, and evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject.

Contents:

• 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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

• 1-107-15796-X
• 1-280-95611-9
• 0-511-35162-3
• 0-511-19083-2
• 0-511-64830-8
• 0-511-55651-9
• 0-511-61724-0
• 0-511-19115-4

OCLC:

171138669