Twining, W.;
(2019)
Bentham’s Theory of Evidence: Setting a Context.
Journal of Bentham Studies
, 18
(1)
pp. 20-37.
10.14324/111.2045-757x.047.
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Abstract
Bentham’s massive writings on evidence, procedure and judicial organisation (EPJ) survive in over 13,000 pages of manuscript in addition to 15–20 published works, for some of which full manuscripts no longer survive. These are all quite closely linked. In order to start to understand the Rationale of Judicial Evidence it is useful to consider it in three broad contexts: Bentham’s other works in addition to those on EPJ, especially those works on the pannomion and the constitutional writings; attempts to construct a ‘theory of (judicial) evidence’ in the Anglo-American tradition of common law, especially those of J. B. Thayer and J. H. Wigmore; and recent efforts at UCL and elsewhere to develop evidence as a distinct multi-disciplinary field.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bentham’s Theory of Evidence: Setting a Context |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.2045-757x.047 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.2045-757X.047 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019, The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
| Keywords: | Bentham; evidence; legal studies; jurisprudence; J. B. Thayer; J. H. Wigmore |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10078586 |
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