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Intellectual History, Probability, And The Law Of Evidence, Peter Tillers
Intellectual History, Probability, And The Law Of Evidence, Peter Tillers
Michigan Law Review
A Review of "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" ad "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence by Barbara J. Shapiro
Prejudice, Politics, And Proof, Peter Tillers
Prejudice, Politics, And Proof, Peter Tillers
Michigan Law Review
In the last fifteen years there has been a great resurgence of interest in fundamental theoretical analysis of the nature of factual proof in litigation. Many serious scholars, both in the law school world and outside it, have turned their energies in this direction. William L. Twining, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, has been a major figure in this growing movement. He recently published a painstaking and scholarly study of Bentham's and Wigmore's theories of evidence, inference, and proof in adjudication. This book is part of Twining's broader, long-term effort to develop a general theoretical framework for …