All Outputs (4)

Theorising Evidence Law (2023)
Journal Article
Roberts, P. (2023). Theorising Evidence Law. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 43(3), 629–649. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqad007

What does it mean for a specialist department of legal studies, such as the Law of Evidence, to have, or to acquire, ‘philosophical foundations’? In what sense are the theoretical foundations of procedural scholarship and teaching distinctively or un... Read More about Theorising Evidence Law.

Presumptuous or pluralistic presumptions of innocence? Methodological diagnosis towards conceptual reinvigoration (2020)
Journal Article
Roberts, P. (2021). Presumptuous or pluralistic presumptions of innocence? Methodological diagnosis towards conceptual reinvigoration. Synthese, 198(9), 8901-8932. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02606-2

This article is a contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship addressing the presumption of innocence, especially interdisciplinary conversations between philosophers and jurists. Terminological confusion and methodological traps and errors notorio... Read More about Presumptuous or pluralistic presumptions of innocence? Methodological diagnosis towards conceptual reinvigoration.

LTDNA evidence on trial (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, P. (2016). LTDNA evidence on trial. Frontiers in Genetics, 7, Article 180. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2016.00180

Adopting the interpretative/hermeneutical method typical of much legal scholarship, this article considers two sets of issues pertaining to LTDNA profiles as evidence in criminal proceedings. The section titled Expert Evidence as Forensic Epistemic W... Read More about LTDNA evidence on trial.

The priority of procedure and the neglect of evidence and proof: facing facts in international criminal law (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, P. (in press). The priority of procedure and the neglect of evidence and proof: facing facts in international criminal law. Journal of International Criminal Justice, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqv021

This article concerns the role and value of procedural and evidentiary scholarship in the rapidly developing field of International Criminal Law (ICL). It extrapolates and adapts to the international context two, distinct but related, lines of argume... Read More about The priority of procedure and the neglect of evidence and proof: facing facts in international criminal law.