Introduction: Teaching Evidence Scholarship
INNOVATIONS IN EVIDENCE AND PROOF, Paul Roberts and Mike Redmayne, eds., Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007
18 Pages Posted: 25 Oct 2007 Last revised: 9 Dec 2012
Abstract
This is the introductory chapter to Roberts and Redmayne (eds.), Innovations in Evidence & Proof (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007). This volume brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA, and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence & Proof scholarship. The essays range expansively over questions of disciplinary taxonomy, pedagogical method and computer-assisted learning, doctrinal analysis, fact-finding, techniques of adjudication, the ethics of cross-examination, the implications of behavioural science research for legal procedure, human rights, comparative law and international criminal trials. Communicating the breadth, dynamism and intensity of contemporary theoretical innovation in their diversity of subject-matter and approach, the authors nonetheless remain united by a common purpose: to indicate how the best interdisciplinary theorising and research might be integrated directly into degree-level Evidence teaching.
Innovations in Evidence & Proof is published at an exciting time of theoretical renewal and increasing empirical sophistication in legal evidence, proof and procedure scholarship. This groundbreaking collection will be essential reading for Evidence teachers, and will also engage the interest and imagination of scholars, researchers and students investigating issues of evidence and proof in any legal system, municipal, transnational or global.
Keywords: Evidence scholarship, evidence and proof, legal process, international and comparative evidence
JEL Classification: K10, K14, K40, K41
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