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010 _a 2013048953
020 _a9781107039964 (hardback)
020 _a1107039967 (hardback)
020 _a9781107698345 (paperback)
020 _a1107698340 (paperback)
040 _aDLC
_beng
_cDLC
_erda
042 _apcc
050 1 4 _aK 2261
_bH111e 2014
082 0 0 _a347/.06
084 _aLAW052000
_2bisacsh
100 1 _aHaack, Susan,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEvidence matters :
_bscience, proof, and truth in the law /
_cSusan Haack, University of Miami.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _axxvi, 416 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aLaw in context
520 _a"Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which cases sometimes turn? How are they to distinguish reliable scientific testimony from unreliable hokum? The dozen interdisciplinary essays collected here explore a whole nexus of such questions about science, proof, and truth in the law. With her characteristic clarity and verve, in these essays Haack brings her original and distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues. She includes detailed analyses of a wide variety of cases and lucid summaries of relevant scientific work, of the many roles of the scientific peer-review system, and of relevant legal developments"--
_cProvided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index.
505 8 _a1. Epistemology and the law of evidence: problems and projects -- 2. Epistemology legalized: or, truth, justice, and the American way -- 3. Legal probabilism: an epistemological dissent -- 4. Irreconcilable differences? The troubled marriage of science and law -- 5. Trial and error: two confusions in Daubert -- 6. Federal philosophy of science: a deconstruction-and a reconstruction -- 7. Peer review and publication: lessons for lawyers -- 8. What's wrong with litigation-driven science? -- 9. Proving causation: the weight of combined evidence -- 10. Correlation and causation: the 'Bradford Hill Criteria' in epidemiological, legal, and epistemological perspective -- 11. Risky business: statistical proof of specific causation -- 12. Nothing fancy: some simple truths about truth in the law.
650 0 _aEvidence (Law).
650 0 _aAdmissible evidence.
650 0 _aScience and law.
650 4 _aEvidencia (Derecho).
650 4 _aPruebas admisibles.
650 4 _aPruebas admisibles.
650 4 _a20150500.
650 7 _aLAW / Jurisprudence.
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