The North Sea Group brings together scholars who study the practice and rationality of legal evidence & proof. The group was founded in 2015 by Christian Dahlman (christian.dahlman@jur.lu.se) and Anne Ruth Mackor (a.r.mackor@rug.nl) at the ‘Models of Rational Proof in Criminal Law’ workshop in Bielefeld. Since then, the group has organized various other workshops, conferences and online talks. The Bielefeld workshop has resulted in a special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science (2020) titled ‘Models of Rational Proof in Criminal Law’. In this special issue, scholars analyze one single case – the Dutch Simonshaven case – using different models of rational proof.
You can find programmes of upcoming events below. To attend these events, please contact Christian Dahlman or Anne Ruth Mackor. See past events for programmes of previous workshops, conferences and talks.
SPRING PROGRAM 2024
February 13, 17:00 CET
Joseph Kadane (Carnegie Mellon University) & Amanda Luby (Swarthmore College)
“An Empirical Approach to Inconclusives in Forensic Black Box Studies”
February 27, 17:00 CET
Karen McGregor Richmond (Copenhagen University)
“Neo-Wigmorean Approaches to Evidence Analysis”
March 12, 17:00 CET
Edward Cheng (Vanderbilt University) & Ehud Guttel (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
“Asymmetric Evidence”
March 26, 17:00 CET
Talia Fisher (Tel Aviv University)
“The Economic Case for Conviction Multiplicity”
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