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Evidence And The Pursuit Of Truth In The Law, Jeffery L. Johnson
Evidence And The Pursuit Of Truth In The Law, Jeffery L. Johnson
Jeffery L Johnson
Lawyers should be much more concerned with the concepts of truth and evidence. The entire profession depends on truth. It is what police detectives, District Attorneys, juries, trial judges, appellate judges, and academic lawyers offering interpretive theories, are all concerned with. But, since truth is seldom apparent on its sleeve, these legal actors are equally dependent on evidence as the only(?) reliable(?) means of determining truth. I defend a commonsensical theory of [good] evidence. I argue that this view, inference to the best explanation, captures most, if not all, of a lawyer’s appeal to evidence. It is far from clear, …
Secular Natural Law And The Normative Justification Of The State, Jeffery L. Johnson
Secular Natural Law And The Normative Justification Of The State, Jeffery L. Johnson
Jeffery L Johnson
The article argues that a plausible normative justification of law and government can be constructed along the lines of the ancient natural law tradition. Rather than assuming the God of western theism, however, the article endorses a biologically based, and thoroughly secular, metaphysical basis for natural law.