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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      June 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511617249
      9780521675376
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617249
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 532 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law: General Interest, Socio-Legal Studies, Law, Jurisprudence
      Series:
      Law in Context
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    Law: General Interest, Socio-Legal Studies, Law, Jurisprudence
    Series:
    Law in Context
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    The Law of Evidence has traditionally been perceived as a dry, highly technical, and mysterious subject. This book argues that problems of evidence in law are closely related to the handling of evidence in other kinds of practical decision-making and other academic disciplines, that it is closely related to common sense and that it is an interesting, lively and accessible subject. These essays develop a readable, coherent historical and theoretical perspective about problems of proof, evidence, and inferential reasoning in law. Although each essay is self-standing, they are woven together to present a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation, in which the rules of evidence play a subordinate, though significant, role. This revised and enlarged edition includes a revised introduction, the best-known essays in the first edition, and chapters on narrative and argumentation, teaching evidence, and evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject.

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    ‘ … Twining seems a born teacher. His texts are highly accessible although they deal with theories that are sometimes very complicated and abstract … [I]t is not only the language that makes the text so attractive and accessible, it is also the use of examples and smart, humorous petites histoires.’

    Professor Hans Nijboer Source: American Journal of Comparative Law

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