Evidence in the Law as Judgment and as Narrative: Dogmatic and Methodological Perspectives

Recommended Prerequisites

Not specified

Teaching Methods

Seminar discussion of the themes, presentations and discussion of texts read in advance, and case study.

Continuous assessment, with a special attention to seminar participation and a particular focus on the discussion in class of a working paper (on a given topic of the seminar) written by the candidate and submitted in advance to the instructor and the other participants.

Learning Outcomes

The goal in this seminar is ensuring an autonomous, integrated approach on a critical issue in the Law in action field: to take seriously a perspective that, unusually enough, is concerned with mobilizing dogmatic, procedural and methodological intentions (in their circular productivity) thus bringing together fields all too often separate, namely, civil procedure and criminal procedure, as well as Theory and Philosophy of Law.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The juridical issue of evidence as Law's gaping wound? The counterpoint between an argumentative-prudential conception and a modern conception of evidence

Chapter I - Issues of evidence in civil procedure: the principle of free assessment of evidence and the admissibility of illegal evidence; sentence as a means of proof (the foreign sentence, probative effectiveness of criminal sentence in civil procedure and of the sentence as a document)

Chapter II - Assessment of evidence and inadmissibility of evidence in criminal procedure. On the relevance of a "general theory" of hidden investigation methods

Chapter III - The methodological unity of evidence. Narrative rationality. The importance of probative controversy and of reconstructing the system enabling its rational handling

Head Lecturer(s)

José Manuel Aroso Linhares

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

[Introd. e cap. III] NEVES, António Castanheira, Metodologia Jurídica, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 1993. 

LINHARES, J. M. Aroso, «Evidence (or Proof?) as Law´s Gaping Wound: a Persistent False Aporia?», Boletim da Faculdade de Direito, vol. 88. tomo 1 (2012), Coimbra, pp. 65-89.

BEX, Floris, Arguments, Stories and Criminal Evidence. A Formal Hybrid Theory, Dordrech, Springer, 2011.

JACKSON, B.S.,Law, Fact and Narrative Coherence, Deborah Charles P., 1988.

 

[Cap I] ]TARUFFO, Michele, La semplice verità, Bari, Laterza, 2009.

 CECCARINI, Adolfo - La prova documentale nel processo civile, Giuffrè Editora, 2006

 

[Cap. II]ANDRADE, Manuel da Costa, Sobre as proibições de prova em processo penal (reimpressão), Coimbra Editora, 2013

- «Métodos ocultos de investigação (Plädoyer para uma teoria geral», in Que Futuro para o Direito Processual Penal. Simpósio em Homenagem a Jorge de Figueiredo Dias, por ocasião dos 20 anos do Código de Processo Penal Português, Coimbra Editora, 2009, pp. 525-551