Overview
- Provides access to theoretical accounts of various problems in legal evidence
- Offers a panorama of theoretical approaches to legal evidence from 8 different national legal cultures (EU and US)
- Includes contributions from most prominent scholars in the area
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 138)
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The book surveys selected theoretical roles that the concept of evidence plays and explores their relations and interconnections. The content is divided into three parts, investigating: (1) evidence in epistemology and the philosophy of science, which focuses on evidence methodologies and the problem of proof in legal scholarship; (2) evidence in legal theory and legal philosophy, where particular attention is paid to the interplay between evidence, legal reasoning and the binding force of such reasoning; and (3) evidence in law, where theoretical problems pertaining to witnesses, expert opinions, explanations of the accused, statistical evidence and neuroscientific evidence are examined.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Two Big Questions Looked Upon from a Historical Point of View and the View of Contemporary Theory of Science
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Theory of Law Put in Contact with Evidence Issues and Scholarship
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Legal Evidence Put in Practice
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theory of Legal Evidence - Evidence in Legal Theory
Editors: Verena Klappstein, Maciej Dybowski
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83841-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83840-9Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83843-0Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83841-6Published: 03 January 2022
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 276
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour