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Routledge-Cavendish
300 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
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Questions of evidence and proof are fundamental to the operation of substantive law and to our understanding of law as a social practice. The study of evidence involves issues of central concern to feminist scholars,including matters of epistemology, psychology, allocation of risk and responsibility.
Debates about evidence, like debates about feminism, involve questioning ideas of rationality... Read more
1. Evidence Law and Feminism 2. Gender, Epistemology and Ethics: Feminist Perspectives on Evidence Theory 3. Rape and the Adversarial Culture of the Courtroom 4. Gender Bias in the Hearsay Rule 5. The Privilege' in the Privilege Doctrine: A Feminist Analysis of the Evidentiary Privileges for Confidential Communications 6. Evidentiary Harassment: The Use of the Rules of Evidence in an Informal Tribunal 7. Resolution without Trial, Evidence Law and the Construction of the Sexual Assault Victim 8. Corroboration and Sexual Assaults in Scots Law 9. The Use of Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials 10. Expert Distractions: Women who Kill, their Syndromes and Disorders 11. The Character of the Accused
Biography
Mary Childs, Louise Ellison
