Black Robes, White Coats
Scientific evidence is commonplace in today's criminal trials. From hair and handwriting analysis to ink and DNA fingerprints, scientists have brought their world to bear on the justice system. Combining political analysis, scientific rea...
Bevisfrågor i förvaltningsprocessen : en översikt
Bevisfrågor i förvaltningsprocessen en översikt behandlar på ett föredömligt lättfattligt och praktiskt användbart sätt reglerna för utredningsskyldighet, bevisbörda, beviskrav och bevisprövning i förvaltningsprocessen. Exempel på frågor som behan...
How Can So Many Be Wrong?
Of the 347 U.S. false criminal convictions overturned so far through DNA testing 73% were based on erroneous eyewitness testimony. How could so many eyewitnesses be wrong? How Can So Many Be Wrong? answers that question. The analysis of the U.S. S...
English Private Law
English Private Law, edited by Professor Andrew Burrows QC FBA, has established itself as a key point of reference on English private law for lawyers in the UK and throughout the world. The book acts as an accessible first point of reference for p...
Burdens of Proof
An examination of the challenges of establishing the authenticity of electronic documents-in particular the design of a cryptographic equivalent to handwritten signatures. The gradual disappearance of paper and its familiar evidential qualities af...
Proof
Winner of the Scribes Book Award "Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days?This is delightful stuff." -Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal "At a time when the concept of truth itself is in trouble, thi...
Anthropological Witness
Anthropological Witness tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton's attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. In March 2016, Hinton served as an exp...
Hollywood Vampires
UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIME Celebrity romances have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike. By the same token, high-profile trials can take over the mainstrea...
Law of Evidence
Combining straightforward explanation with scholarly analysis, Law of Evidence introduces students to the full range of topics covered in law of evidence courses, with clarity and depth. Highlighting the context within which the law operates, the ...
Dealing with DNA Evidence
Giving the reader an in-depth understanding of DNA evidence in criminal practice, this text explains in clear language how DNA evidence is obtained and how it can be successfully challenged in court to minimize its impact or even dismiss it comple...
Proof
In a world awash in "fake news," where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the courtroom, the scientific laboratory, and the insights of philosophers to explore the na...
Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law
Identifies and evaluates the psychological choices implicit in the rules of evidence Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In ...
Evidence in Contemporary Civil Procedure
A book series devoted to the common foundations of the European legal systems. The Ius Commune Europaeum series includes comparative legal studies as well as studies on the effect of treaties within national legal systems. All areas of the law are...
The Probable and the Provable
The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian...
Hollywood Vampires
UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIME Celebrity romances have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike. By the same token, high-profile trials can take over the mainstrea...
Art of Cross-Examination
The Art of Cross-Examination
Art of Cross-Examination
The Art of Cross-Examination
