Rethinking Evidence: Exploratory Essays

Preface 1. Introduction: The story of a project 2. Taking facts seriously 3. The rationalist tradition of evidence scholarship 4. Some scepticism about some scepticisms 5. Identification and misidentification in legal processes: redefining the problem 6. What is the law of evidence? 7. Rethinking evidence 8. Legal reasoning and argumentation 9. Stories and argument 10. Lawyers' stories 11. Narrative and generalizations in argumentation about questions of fact 12. Reconstructing the truth about Edith Thompson: the Shakespearean and the Jurist (with R. Weis) 13. The ratio decidendi of the parable of the prodigal son 14. Taking facts seriously - again 15. Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject.