Rethinking evidence : exploratory essays /
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| Author / Creator: | Twining, William, 1934- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York, NY, USA : Blackwell, 1990, c1989. |
| Description: | vii, 407 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1028179 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 13. The ratio decidendi of the parable of the prodigal son
- 14. Taking facts seriously - again
- 15. Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject