Academic

Pardo on Walton on Witness Testimony Evidence

By Lawrence Solum

Michael S. Pardo (University of Alabama School of Law) has posted Review - 'Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence, and Law' by Douglas Walton (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This review essay discusses Douglas Walton's recent book, Witness Testimony Evidence (Cambridge University Press, 2007). The book examines how testimony functions as evidence in law, and it explores various ways in which the structure of testimonial evidence (and the inferences drawn from it) may be modeled formally. The book also discusses the philosophical issues underlying the formal models as well as those underlying reasoning from testimonial evidence more generally. This essay situates the book's analysis within evidence scholarship, summarizes its chapters, and discusses some important limitations on the type of formal analysis pursued.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).