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Legal Evidence and Proof
Statistics, Stories, Logic
- 302 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Legal Evidence and Proof
Statistics, Stories, Logic
About this book
As a result of recent scandals concerning evidence and proof in the administration of criminal justice - ranging from innocent people on death row in the United States to misuse of statistics leading to wrongful convictions in The Netherlands and elsewhere - inquiries into the logic of evidence and proof have taken on a new urgency both in an academic and practical sense. This study presents a broad perspective on logic by focusing on inference not just in isolation but as embedded in contexts of procedure and investigation. With special attention being paid to recent developments in Artificial Intelligence and the Law, specifically related to evidentiary reasoning, this book provides clarification of problems of logic and argumentation in relation to evidence and proof. As the vast majority of legal conflicts relate to contested facts, rather than contested law, this volume concerning facts as prime determinants of legal decisions presents an important contribution to the field for both scholars and practitioners.
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Yes, you can access Legal Evidence and Proof by Henry Prakken, Hendrik Kaptein, Henry Prakken,Hendrik Kaptein in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Jurisprudence. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- General Introduction
- 1 Burdens of Evidence and Proof: Why Bear Them? A Plea for Principled Opportunism in (Leaving) Legal Fact-finding (Alone)
- 2 The Fabrication of Facts: The Lure of the Incredible Coincidence
- 3 Decision-making in the Forensic Arena
- 4 Analysing Stories Using Schemes
- 5 The Evaluation of Evidence: Differences between Legal Systems
- 6 Inference to the Best Legal Explanation
- 7 Accepting the Truth of a Story about the Facts of a Criminal Case
- 8 Rigid Anarchic Principles of Evidence and Proof: Anomist Panaceas against Legal Pathologies of Proceduralism
- 9 A Logical Analysis of Burdens of Proof
- 10 Twelve Angry Men or One Good Woman? Asymmetric Relations in Evidentiary Reasoning
- Index