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Twining, William

Rethinking evidence : exploratory essays by William Twining. - 2nd ed. - USA : CUP, 2006. - 511p.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction : the story of a project
Chapter 2. Taking facts seriously
Chapter 3. The Rationalist Tradition of evidence scholarship
Chapter 4. Some scepticism about some scepticisms
Chapter 5. Identification and misidentification in legal processes : redefining the problem
Chapter 6. What is the law of evidence?
Chapter 7. Rethinking evidence
Chapter 8. Legal reasoning and argumentation
Chapter 9. Stories and argument
Chapter 10. Lawyers' stories
Chapter 11. Narrative and generalizations in argumentation about questions of fact
Chapter 12. Reconstructing the truth about Edith Thompson the Shakespearean and the jurist --
Chapter 13.The Ratio Decidendi of the parable of the Prodigal Son --
Chapter 14. Taking facts seriously-again
Chapter 15. Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject
Bibliography
Index

ISBN: 9780521675376

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Evidence.

Dewey Class. No.: 347.06 / TWI/RET