Innovations in Evidence and Proof brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship. The essays comprising this volume range expansively over questions of disciplinary taxonomy, pedagogical method and computer-assisted learning, doctrinal analysis, fact-finding, techniques of adjudication, the ethics of cross-examination, the implications of behavioural science research for legal procedure, human rights, comparative law and international criminal trials. Communicating the breadth, dynamism and intensity of contemporary theoretical innovation in their diversity of subject-matter and approach, the authors nonetheless remain united by a common purpose: to indicate how the best interdisciplinary theorising and research might be integrated directly into degree-level Evidence teaching. Innovations in Evidence and Proof is published at an exciting time of theoretical renewal and increasing empirical sophistication in legal evidence, proof and procedure scholarship. This groundbreaking collection will be essential reading for Evidence teachers, and will also engage the interest and imagination of scholars, researchers and students investigating issues of evidence and proof in any legal system, municipal, transnational or global.

Introduction: Teaching Evidence Scholarship PAUL ROBERTS AND MIKE REDMAYNE1. Rethinking the Law of Evidence: a Twenty-First Century Agenda for Teaching and Research PAUL ROBERTS2. Taking Facts Seriously-Again WILLIAM TWINING3. A Principled Approach to Relevance: the Cheshire Cat in Canada CHRISTINE BOYLE4. Analysing Evidence Case Law MIKE REDMAYNE5. Thinking With and Outside the Box: Developing Computer Support for Evidence Teaching BURKHARD SCHAFER, JEROEN KEPPENS AND QIANG SHEN6. Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives on Hearsay and Confrontation CRAIG R CALLEN7. Reasoning, Relevance and Law Reform: the Influence of Empirical Research on Criminal Adjudication JENNY MCEWAN8. Behavioural Science Data in Evidence Teaching and Scholarship RODERICK BAGSHAW9. Teaching Evidence Scholarship: Evidence and the Practical Process of Proof ANDREW LIGERTWOOD10. Battling a Good Story: Cross-examining the Failure of the Law of Evidence JILL HUNTER11. Taking Comparative Evidence Seriously JOHN JACKSON12. Convergence, Appropriate Fit and Values in Criminal Process PJ SCHWIKKARD13. Why International Criminal Evidence? PAUL ROBERTS14. A Message from Elsewhere: Witnesses before International Criminal Tribunals ROBERT CRYER