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Historians as Expert Judicial Witnesses in Tobacco Litigation: A Controversial Legal Practice (Studies in the History of Law and Justice Book 4) by Ramses Delafontaine (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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La 4e de couverture indique : "Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness. This book focuses on tobacco litigation in the U.S. wherein 50 historians have witnessed in 314 court cases from 1986 to 2014. The author examines the use of historical arguments in court and investigates how a legal context influences historical narratives and discourse in forensic history. Delafontaine asserts that the courtroom is a performative and fact-making theatre. Nonetheless, he argues that the civic responsibility of the historian should not end at the threshold of the courtroom where history and truth hang in the balance. The book is divided into three parts featuring an impressive range of European and American case studies. The first part provides a theoretical framework on the issues which arise when history and law interact. The second part gives a comparative overview of European and American examples of forensic history. This part also reviews U.S. legal rules and case law on expert evidence, as well as extralegal challenges historians face as experts. The third part covers a series of tobacco
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- Author
- Ramses Delafontaine (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing, Cham
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319383095
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Law, Philosophy
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