TAILIEUCHUNG - Truth, Error, and Criminal Law An Essay in Legal Epistemology

Every author owes debts more numerous than he can mention. Of some, he is barely aware, though they are no less real for that. More troubling are those that run so deeply that they cannot easily if ever be repaid, and certainly not by the bare acknowledgment of their existence. Still, it remains important to mention them, even if the gesture is brief and fleeting. I first became interested in epistemological issues surrounding the law about five years ago, having previously devoted myself to the philosophy of science and applied epistemology | TRUTH ERROR AND CRIMINAL LAW An Essay in Legal Epistemolgy LARRY LAUDAN CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND LAW Cambridge 861663 This page intentionally left blank Truth Error and Criminal Law An Essay in Legal Epistemology This book treats problems in the epistemology of the law. Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were as higher courts routinely claim the overriding aim of the criminal justice system. Laudan mounts a systematic critique of existing rules and procedures that are obstacles to that quest. He also examines issues of error distribution by offering the first integrated analysis of the various mechanisms - the standard of proof the benefit of the doubt the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof - for implementing society s view about the relative importance of the errors that can occur in a trial. Larry Laudan is Principal Investigator at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is the author of many books including Progress and Its Problems Science and Values and Beyond Positivism and Relativism. He is a former divisional president of the American Philosophical .

• Luật học
• Criminal Law
• Reasonable Doubt
• Flawed Rules
• Dubious Motives
• Law
• Models of criminal liability of artificial intelligence
• Criminal liability of artificial intelligence
• Science fiction to prospect for criminal law and policy in Vietnam
• Criminal law and policy in Vietnam
• Criminal law and policy
• Summary of Law doctoral thesis
• Criminal law and criminal procedure
• Adversarial activities
• First instance trial
• Criminal cases
• International Criminal
• Criminal Enterprise
• Voluntary participation
• criminal purpose
• Mental elements
• The provision of criminal liability exemprion
• The 1999 criminal law code of Vietnam
• Criminal law code
• Face criminal liability
• The fight against crime
• Universal Jurisdiction
• International Crimes
• Criminal Courts
• Prosecuting Corporations
• Criminal Norm
• Criminal Sanction
• Legal Sources
• Mitigating
• Criminal Events
• Criminal punishment
• Constitutional limits
• Criminal liability
• Vicarious liability
• The criminal Act
• Summary of Doctoral thesis in Law
• Summary of Doctoral thesis
• Judicial measures in Vietnamese criminal law
• Vietnamese criminal law
• Practical issues
• Apply criminal law
• Abuse of trust in appropriating property
• The Peoples Court
• Summary of the Doctoral dissertation
• Summary of the Doctoral dissertation in Law
• Legal status of accused persons
• Vietnamese criminal procedure law
• Criminal procedure law
• Human Rights
• Implementation Force
• Law Commission
• Criminal Court
• Political Rights
• Abstract of Doctoral thesis
• Abstract of Doctoral thesis in Jurisprudence
• Evaluating evidence in criminal procedure
• Criminal procedure in Viet Nam
• Dynamic business law
• Business law
• Lecture Dynamic business law
• Legal environment of business
• Business crime
• Criminal Offences
• Measures
• Methodological background
• Criminal Justice
• Response rates
• criminal tribunals
• Hybrid tribunals
• War crimes
• money laundering
• COMMON PEACE
• criminal accusation
• criminal process
• medieval parallels
• reported crimes
• versus Procedure
• Human Action
• Criminal Procedure
• Natural Events
• Indigent Parents
• freedom compromised
• behavioral impairment
• structured nature
• Justification
• Resist Aggression
• Proposed Rationale
• American Law
• Human Traps
• Australian Case Law
• Crimes infringe upon the marriage
• Family law
• Vietnam’s criminal law
• Constitutional Law
• Administrative Law
• Intentional Torts
• Mutual Assent