Legal evidence and proof
Subtitle: statistics, stories, logic
By: by Hendrik Kaptein, Henry Prakken, and Bart Verheij.
Contributors: Prakken, Henry.; Verheij, Bart.
Series: Applied legal philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780754676201
Subjects: Evidence (Law); Evidence, Criminal
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Burdens of evidence and proof : why bear them? a plea for principled opportunism in (leaving) legal factfinding (alone) / Hendrik Kaptein; title: The fabrication of facts : the lure of the incredible coincidence / Ton Derksen and Monica Meijsing; title: Decision-making in the forensic arena / Ton Broeders; title: Analyzing stories using schemes / Floris Bex; title: The evaluation of evidence : differences between legal systems / Marijke Malsch and Ian Freckelton; title: Inference to the best legal explanation / Amalia Amaya; title: Accepting the truth of a story about the facts of a criminal case / Bart Verheij and Floris Bex; title: Rigid anarchic principles of evidence and proof : anomist panaceas against legal pathologies of proceduralism / Hendrik Kaptein; title: A logical analysis of burdens of proof / Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor; title: Twelve angry men or one good woman? asymmetric relations in evidentiary reasoning / Burkhard Schafer.