Rethinking Evidence: Exploratory Essays - Softcover

Twining, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081011142X ISBN 13: 9780810111424

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Evidence, proof and probabilities, rationality, scepticism and narrative in legal discourse, and the reform of criminal evidence have all been the subject of lively debates in recent years. This book brings together seminal and new essays from a leading contributor to this new evidence scholarship. ""Rethinking evidence"" contains a series of linked essays which consider historical, theoretical and applied themes from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together well-known papers and also includes substantial new essays on the nature and scope of the law of evidence, lawyers' stories, and the case of Edith Thompson. The final chapter outlines a general perspective on the processing and uses of information in litigation as the basis for a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of evidence in law. These readable and provocative essays represent a major contribution not only to legal theory but also to the general study of discourse about evidence in many disciplines.

About this title

Review

' … Twining seems a born teacher. His texts are highly accessible although they deal with theories that are sometimes very complicated and abstract … [I]t is not only the language that makes the text so attractive and accessible, it is also the use of examples and smart, humorous petites histoires.' Professor Hans Nijboer, American Journal of Comparative Law

Book Description

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081011142X
• ISBN 13: 9780810111424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416