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French judges’ evidential reasoning. An epistemological approach

Le raisonnement probatoire des juges en France. Une approche épistémologique

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Proof, doubt and the fear of miscarriages of justice are at the heart of the popular imagery of trials, which features judges and juries trying to assemble the pieces of a veritable jigsaw puzzle to arrive at the truth. Finding the facts before any legal qualification seems paramount since a decision based on factual errors cannot be right. However, the way in which judges must form their opinions on questions of fact is a topic remarkably absent from French law (both positive law and legal scholarship). A blind spot in the law, judges’ reasoning on facts and evidence has not been the subject of in-depth epistemological analysis either. Although the norms of correct reasoning are a privileged subject for philosophy, they are generally studied with reference to logic and the scientific method. This book, at the crossroads of epistemology and legal scholarship, aims to fill this double gap between law and philosophy, by proposing a philosophy of evidential reasoning rooted in a critical reading of French law and fed by a comparative approach.

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hal-04364315 , version 1 (26-12-2023)

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Marion Vorms. French judges’ evidential reasoning. An epistemological approach: Book project drawn from MA thesis. 2023. ⟨hal-04364315⟩

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