Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

8-27-2009

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Corporate Governance Network; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Public Law & Legal Theory; Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournals; Political Science Network

Abstract

This review essay discusses Douglas Waltons 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 books analysis within evidence scholarship summarizes its chapters and discusses some important limitations on the type of formal analysis pursued

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