Evidence and inference in history and law : interdisciplinary dialogues / edited by William Twining and Iain Hampsher-Monk.

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern Univ Pr, 2003.

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Evidence (Law) -- Philosophy.

Inference.

Legal reasoning.

Introduction / William Twining and Iain Hampsher-Monk

1. Evidence and inferences about past events : an overview of six case studies / David A Schum

2. Reconstructing the truth about Edith Thompson : the Shakespearean and the jurist / William Twining and René Weis

3. The last wedge / M J Geller

4. Wigmore meets "the last wedge" / Terence J Anderson

5. Wigmorean analysis and the survival of cuneiform / M J Geller

6. The mountebank : a case study in early modern theater iconography / M A Katrizky

7. Schubert 'Lieder' and the guitar : musicological evidence and inference / Thomas F Heck

8. Historical evidence and Dutch colonial labor relations / V J H Houben

9. Evidence and inference in the history of political thought : the case of Locke's theory of property / Iain Hampsher-Monk.

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ix, 357 p.