Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of 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 jurist
- 13 The Ratio Decidendi of the Parable of the Prodigal Son
- 14 Taking facts seriously – again
- 15 Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of 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 jurist
- 13 The Ratio Decidendi of the Parable of the Prodigal Son
- 14 Taking facts seriously – again
- 15 Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Rethinking EvidenceExploratory Essays, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006