The Book of Evidence

Author: John Banville
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307817121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.

Merritt and Simmons's Learning Evidence: from the Federal Rules to the Courtroom, 5th

Author: Deborah Jones Merritt (‡e author)
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781684675784
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1096

Book Description
CasebookPlus Hardbound - New, hardbound print book includes lifetime digital access to an eBook, with the ability to highlight and take notes, and 12-month access to a digital Learning Library that includes self-assessment quizzes tied to this book, online videos, interactive trial simulations, leading study aids, an outline starter, and Gilbert Law Dictionary.

McCormick on Evidence

Author: Charles Tilford McCormick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780314161444
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Show Me the Evidence

Author: Ron Haskins
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815725701
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and enacted several initiatives to fund social programs based on rigorous evidence of success. Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis tell the story of six—spanning preschool and K-12 education, teen pregnancy, employment and training, health, and community-based programs. Readers will appreciate the fast-moving descriptions of the politics and policy debates that shaped these federal programs and the analysis of whether they will truly reshape federal social policy and greatly improve its impacts on the nation's social problems. Based on interviews with 134 individuals (including advocates, officials at the Office of Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council, Congressional staff, and officials in the federal agencies administering the initiatives) as well as Congressional and administration documents and news accounts, the authors examine each of the six initiatives in separate chapters. The story of each initiative includes a review of the social problem the initiative addresses; the genesis and enactment of the legislation that authorized the initiative; and the development of the procedures used by the administration to set the evidence standard and evaluation requirements—including the requirements for grant applications and awarding of grants.

The Proof

Author: Frederick Schauer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674276256
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Winner of the Scribes Book Award “Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days...This is delightful stuff.” —Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal “At a time when the concept of truth itself is in trouble, this lively and accessible account provides vivid and deep analysis of the practices addressing what is reliably true in law, science, history, and ordinary life. The Proof offers both timely and enduring insights.” —Martha Minow, former Dean of Harvard Law School “His essential argument is that in assessing evidence, we need, first of all, to recognize that evidence comes in degrees...and that probability, the likelihood that the evidence or testimony is accurate, matters.” —Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Education “I would make Proof one of a handful of books that all incoming law students should read...Essential and timely.” —Emily R. D. Murphy, Law and Society Review In the age of fake news, trust and truth are hard to come by. Blatantly and shamelessly, public figures deceive us by abusing what sounds like evidence. To help us navigate this polarized world awash in misinformation, preeminent legal theorist Frederick Schauer proposes a much-needed corrective. How we know what we think we know is largely a matter of how we weigh the evidence. But evidence is no simple thing. Law, science, public and private decision making—all rely on different standards of evidence. From vaccine and food safety to claims of election-fraud, the reliability of experts and eyewitnesses to climate science, The Proof develops fresh insights into the challenge of reaching the truth. Schauer reveals how to reason more effectively in everyday life, shows why people often reason poorly, and makes the case that evidence is not just a matter of legal rules, it is the cornerstone of judgment.

Evidence

Author: Howard S. Becker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646637X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher, as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, and What About Mozart? What About Murder? It turns out that the master sociologist has yet one more trick up his sleeve—a fifth guidebook, Evidence. Becker has for seventy years been mulling over the problem of evidence. He argues that social scientists don’t take questions about the usefulness of their data as evidence for their ideas seriously enough. For example, researchers have long used the occupation of a person’s father as evidence of the family’s social class, but studies have shown this to be a flawed measure—for one thing, a lot of people answer that question too vaguely to make the reasoning plausible. The book is filled with examples like this, and Becker uses them to expose a series of errors, suggesting ways to avoid them, or even to turn them into research topics in their own right. He argues strongly that because no data-gathering method produces totally reliable information, a big part of the research job consists of getting rid of error. Readers will find Becker’s newest guidebook a valuable tool, useful for social scientists of every variety.

Evidence of the Law

Author: Gary Lawson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022643205X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
"As Gary Lawson shows, legal claims are inherently objects of proof, and whether or not the law acknowledges the point openly, proof of legal claims is just a special case of the more general norms governing proof of any claim. As a result, similar principles of evidentiary admissibility, standards of proof, and burdens of proof operate, and must operate, in the background of claims about the law. This book brings these evidentiary principles for proving law out of the shadows so that they can be analyzed, clarified, and discussed."--Amazon website.

The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict

Author: Josh McDowell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781850785521
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 816

Book Description
Among important books in the defense of Christianity, this one has few equals. Evidence That Demands a Verdict is an easy-to-read, front-line defense for Christians facing the tough questions of critics and skeptics. Using secular evidences and other historical sources, Josh McDowell's faith-building book is a must read for every Christian.

Wisconsin Evidence

Author: Daniel D. Blinka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 718

Book Description

Acing Evidence

Author: Aviva Orenstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780314276094
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book offers a succinct, clear, and user-friendly review of federal evidence law. It provides many helpful examples and employs checklists at the end of every chapter. The checklist approach provides an organized way to analyze evidence problems and is particularly helpful for spotting hidden issues. This book's summaries, sample problems, and checklists offer a systematic process for spotting and resolving evidence problems in class, on your evidence exam, on the bar, and in the real world.