Author Archives: H. Jellema

September 16, 17:00 CETSimon Cole (University of California at Irvine)“How can a Forensic Result be a Decision?” September 30, 17:00 CETLudi van Leeuwen (University of Groningen)“Evaluating Bayesian Network Idioms of Eyewitness Testimony with Agent-Based Models” October 14, 17:00 CETMarcello Di Bello (University of Arizona) & Giulia Lasagni (University of Bologna)“On Classifying the Causes of WrongfulContinue reading “Fall program 2025”

March 11, 17:00 CETSarah Summers (University of Zürich)“Criminal Proof and the Right to a Defence” March 25, 17:00 CETJulia Mortera (Roma Tre University) & William Thompson (University of Californa at Irvine)“The Epistemic Value of Novel Predictive Success in Scientific and Criminal Investigations” April 8, 17:00 CETSilja Renooij (Utrecht University)“Quantifying Robustness in Bayesian Networks” April 22,Continue reading “NSG program spring 2025”

October 1, 17:00-18:00 CESTJan de Koeijer (Netherlands Forensic Institute)“Combining Evidence in Complex Cases” October 15, 17:00-18:00 CESTChris Slobogin (Vanderbilt University)“Proving the Future in Criminal Cases” October 29, 17:00-18:00 CET (note change to wintertime)Mario Guenther (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)“Legal Proof and Probability” November 12, 17:00-18:00 CETSabine Gless (University of Basel)“Could Robot Judges Believe?”

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 hasContinue reading “The North Sea Group”