Innovations in Evidence and Proof : Integrating Theory, Research and Teaching.

Half title page -- Title page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Teaching Evidence Scholarship -- 1 Rethinking the Law of Evidence: a Twenty-First Century Agenda for Teaching and Research -- TIME FOR RETHINKING -- TAKING TWINING SERIOUSLY -- TAXONOMY -- EPISTEMOLOGY -- POLITICAL MORALITY -- COSMOPOLITANISM -- PLEASE DISCUSS -- 2 Taking Facts Seriously- Again -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SUBJECT OF EVIDENCE DESERVES A MORE CENTRAL PLACE INTHE DISCIPLINE OF LAW -- TEACHING EVIDENCE AT FIRST-DEGREE LEVEL: A SUGGESTED FRAMEWORK -- EVIDENCE AS AN EMERGING INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR LAW -- 3 A Principled Approach to Relevance: the Cheshire Cat in Canada -- INTRODUCTION -- RELEVANCE AND DRAWING FACTUAL INFERENCES -- CONCLUSION -- 4 Analysing Evidence Case Law -- INTRODUCTION -- BLASTLAND: HYPOTHESIS CHOICE -- KEARLEY: DETECTING BELIEF -- INFERENCES FROM SILENCE -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Thinking With and Outside the Box: Developing Computer Supportfor Evidence Teaching -- INTRODUCTION -- ARGUING THE CASE FOR CREATIVITY IN LAW AND COMPUTING -- DEAD BODIES IN LOCKED ROOMS -- FUTURE WORK -- 6 Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives on Hearsay and Confrontation -- INTRODUCTION -- AN ILLUSTRATION -- COGNITIVE STRATEGY -- COGNITION AND CONFRONTATION -- AN ANALYTICAL MATRIX FOR HEARSAY AND CONFRONTATION -- CONCLUSION -- 7 Reasoning, Relevance and Law Reform: the Influence of Empirical Research on Criminal Adjudication -- INTRODUCTION -- EVIDENCE AND EMPIRICISM -- FIRESIDES AND LABORATORIES -- WITNESSING AND MEMORY -- ORALITY AND HEARSAY -- ASSUMPTIONS OF LAY DISABILITY AND THEIR EVIDENTIARY IMPLICATIONS -- TAKING ACCOUNT OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE: THE CONDUCT OF TRIALS -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Behavioural Science Data in Evidence Teaching and Scholarship.

INTRODUCTION: A SKETCH OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE -- CENTRAL QUESTION: CRITICAL REFLECTION ON THE CLAIMS OFEXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE -- A JOKE -- SUBSTITUTIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE -- KEEPING THE LIMITS IN PROPORTION -- REFLECTIONS: WHO ELSE IS ANXIOUS? -- PROGRESS: ELEMENTS IN A POSITIVE GUIDE TO RECONCILING RELEVANCE AND POTENTIAL FALLIBILITY IN CONDITIONS OF ANXIETY -- CONCLUSIONS -- 9 Teaching Evidence Scholarship: Evidence and the Practical Processof Proof -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXT AND STANDPOINT: LEGAL PROCESS -- ISOLATING EVIDENTIAL ISSUES WITHIN LEGAL PROCESS -- ROOT OF PROCEDURAL COMPLEXITY: FACTUAL UNCERTAINTY -- NORMATIVE GOALS OF PROCESS -- TEACHING EVIDENCE TO EMPHASISE THE COMPLEXITY OF EVIDENTIAL ISSUES IN LEGAL PROCESS -- CONCLUSION -- 10 Battling a Good Story: Cross-examining the Failure of the Law of Evidence -- INTRODUCTION: LIMITED IMPACT OF LEGAL REFORMS ON CROSS-EXAMINATION -- CROSS-EXAMINATION, LAWYERISATION AND THE CRIMINAL TRIAL -- RATIONAL PROCESS OR TOURNAMENT? THE FAILURES OF CROSS-EXAMINATION -- CROSS-EXAMINATION: ADVOCACY NOT EVIDENCE RULES -- CROSS-EXAMINATION: STEREOTYPES AND LYING -- LAW'S TIRED, SAD AND INADEQUATE RULES -- THE LAW OF EVIDENCE AND WITNESS RIGHTS: THE WAY FORWARD -- 11 Taking Comparative Evidence Seriously -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE? -- COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE SCHOLARSHIP -- THE ADVERSARIAL AND INQUISITORIAL DICHOTOMY -- EVOLUTION OF EVIDENTIARY HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS -- TOWARDS CONVERGENCE OR REALIGNMENT? -- CONCLUSION -- 12 Convergence, Appropriate Fit and Values in Criminal Process -- INTRODUCTION -- FUNCTIONALITY -- LEGITIMACY AND CONTEXT -- SUBSTANCE AND FORM -- INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VALUES -- THE BROADER SOCIETAL CONTEXT -- LEGITIMACY AND POPULISM -- RECOGNISING LIMITATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- 13 Why International Criminal Evidence? -- JUSTICE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

NORMATIVE VALUES AND OBJECTIVES -- PROCEDURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN -- CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON EVIDENCE, PROOF AND FACT-FINDING -- CONCLUDING WITH A QUESTION -- 14 A Message from Elsewhere: Witnesses before International Criminal Tribunals -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERPRETATION, CULTURE AND WITNESS EVIDENCE -- CULTURE AND MISUNDERSTANDING -- TRAUMA AND MEMORY -- CONCLUSION -- Index.

This brings together fifteen leading scholars and law teachers to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship.

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