Peter Murphy (ed.)

Evidence, Proof, and Facts

A Book of Sources
Herausgeber: Murphy, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of materials concerned not only with the law of evidence, but also with the logical and rhetorical aspects of proof; the epistemology of evidence as a basis for the proof of disputed facts; and scientific aspects of the subject. The editor also raises issues such as the philosophical basis for the use of evidence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 620
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 927g
• ISBN-13: 9780199261956
• ISBN-10: 0199261954
• Artikelnr.: 21640666

Autorenporträt

Peter Murphy is Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law and currently Defence Counsel for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He is Editor-in-Chief of Blackstone's Criminal Practice and author of Murphy on Evidence (Blackstone, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Table of Works Represented, with Abbreviations Used
* Evidence, Proof, and Facts: Introductory Essay
* 1: The Concept of Evidence and the Law of Evidence
* SECTION 1: WHAT IS EVIDENCE?
* Bentham, Rationale
* Schum, Foundations
* SECTION 2: DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE
* Thayer, Preliminary Treatise
* Holdsworth, History
* Twining, Rethinking Evidence
* SECTION 3: ARE EXCLUSIONARY RULES OF EVIDENCE NEEDED?
* Bentham, Rationale
* Stephen, Report
* SECTION 4: THE PHILOSOPHY UNDERLYING THE LAW OF EVIDENCE: OPTIMISTIC
RATIONALISM
* Twining, Theories
* 2: Logic and Rhetoric
* SECTION 1: LOGIC, DEDUCTIVE REASONING, AND THE SYLLOGISM
* Aristotle, Topics
* Aristotle, Prior Analytics
* Mill, System
* SECTION 2: REJECTION OF THE SYLLOGISM AS A SCIENTIFIC METHOD
* Bacon, Novum Organum
* Hume, Enquiry
* Schum, Foundations
* SECTION 3: LOGIC, INDUCTIVE REASONING, AND INFERENCES FROM EVIDENCE
* Schmidt, The Influence of the Legal Paradigm on the Development of
Logic
* Mill, System
* SECTION 4: LOGICAL FALLACIES
* Mill, System
* SECTION 5: DIALECTIC AND RHETORIC
* Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric
* Plato, Gorgias
* Plato, Phaedrus
* 3: Judicial Reasoning About Facts
* SECTION 1: RELEVANCE
* Stephen, Digest
* US Federal Rule of Evidence 401
* Bentham, Rationale
* Schum, Foundations
* Keynes, Treatise
* SECTION 2: DIRECT AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
* Bentham, Rationale
* SECTION 3: THE PROCESS OF JUDICIAL REASONING
* Thayer, Preliminary Treatise
* Wigmore, Science
* SECTION 4: PROBATIVE VALUE AND WEIGHT
* Bentham, Rationale
* Keynes, Treatise
* SECTION 5: GENERALIZATIONS
* Hume, Enquiry
* Bentham, Rationale
* Mill, System
* 4: Causation
* SECTION 1: PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR THEORY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
* Aristotle, Physics
* Locke, Essay
* Hume, Treatise
* Hume, Enquiry
* Mill, System
* SECTION 2: CAUSE AND EFFECT AS BASIS FOR INFERENCE FROM EVIDENCE
* Hart and Honoré, Causation
* Schum, Foundations
* SECTION 3: LEGAL APPLICATIONS OF CAUSATION
* Hart and Honoré, Causation
* 5: The Standard of Proof
* SECTION 1: RELATIONSHIP OF INDUCTIVE REASONING TO STANDARDS OF PROOF
* Cohen, The Probable and the Provable
* SECTION 2: PROOF BY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE
* Rhesa Shipping Co SA v. Edmunds (The Popi M)
* T.N.T. Management Pty. Ltd. v. Brooks
* Cohen, The Probable and the Provable
* SECTION 3: PROOF BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT
* Shapiro, Beyond Reasonable Doubt
* Cohen, The Probable and the Provable
* SECTION 4: DECISION THEORY IN RELATION TO STANDARDS OF PROOF
* Kaplan, Decision Theory and the Factfinding Process
* Tribe, Trial by Mathematics: Precision and Ritual in the Legal
Process
* 6: Theories of Probability
* SECTION 1: PROBABILITY THEORIES GENERALLY
* Locke, Essay
* Hume, Treatise
* Bentham, Rationale
* Keynes, Treatise
* SECTION 2: PROBABILITY APPLIED TO HUMAN CONDUCT AND CREDIBILITY
* Keynes, Treatise
* Eggleston, Evidence, Proof, and Probability
* SECTION 3: THE PRINCIPLE OF INDIFFERENCE
* Cohen, Introduction
* 7: Probability: Issues of Mathematics
* SECTION 1: MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY CALCULUS
* Mill, System
* Schum, Foundations
* Cohen, Introduction
* SECTION 2: REVISION OF PROBABILITY ESTIMATES IN LIGHT OF NEW
EVIDENCE: BAYES' RULE
* Schum, Foundations
* Bayes, Essay
* SECTION 3: MATHEMATICS IN THE COURTROOM
* People v. Collins
* R v. Adams (No. 2)
* 8: Probability: Mathematical and Non-Mathematical Models
* SECTION 1: MON-MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY MODELS
* Mill, System
* Keynes, Treatise
* Cohen, Introduction
* Cohen, The Probable and the Provable
* SECTION 2: PASCAL OR BACON? THE GREAT DEBATE
* Tribe, Trial by Mathematics: Precision and Ritual in the Legal
Process
* Kaye, The Laws of Probability and the Laws of the Land
* 9: Alternative Epistemologies of Evidence
* SECTION 1: CHANCE AND ACAUSAL CONNECTIONS
* Aristotle, Physics
* Mill, System
* SECTION 2: THE OLDER MODES OF PROOF
* Holdsworth, History
* Hammurabi, Code
* Manu, Laws
* Supakar, The Law of Evidence in Ancient India
* SECTION 3: A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE
* Harmon, Etchings on Glass
* APPENDIX 1: INFERENCE NETWORKS AND THE CHARTING OF EVIDENCE
* Wigmore, The Problem of Proof
* APPENDIX 2: SOME COMMONLY USED HYPOTHETICALS
* Index