NSG – Fall Program 2023
October 10, 17:00 CEST
Hylke Jellema, University of Utrecht (the Netherlands)
“Perpetrator Knowledge – What is it, and How do Courts Reason About it?”
October 24, 17:00 CET
Julia Korkman, Åbo Akademi University (Finland)
“Judges’ Assessments of Live Versus Video-Mediated Party Statements”
November 7, 17:00 CET
Julia Mortera, Roma Tre University (Italy)
“Statistical Issues in Investigations of Suspected Medical Misconduct”
ICFIS 2023
This year’s ICFIS took place from 12-15 June 2023. See the website for more details. Parallel to the conference there was a North Sea Group workshop on theory of legal evidence. This workshop took place on the 13th of June, at the University of Lund, Faculty of Law, Pufendorf Hall. The provisional programme of this workshop was as follows:
09:00 – 10:00 Marjan Sjerps (The Netherlands Forensic Institute, University of Amsterdam) & Dyon Doensen (Forensic Advisor at Court Limburg)
“What should Legal Practitioners know about the Bayesian Framework for Evidence Evaluation?”
10:00 Coffee
10:30 – 11:30 Alicia Carriquiry (Iowa State University)
“On the Design and Analysis of Black-Box Studies”
12:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Franco Taroni (University of Lausanne) & Silvia Bozza (University of Lausanne)
“The Primacy of the Bayes Factor in the Evaluation of Evidence”
14:00 – 15:00 William Thompson (University of California at Irvine)
“Dealing with Issues of Conditional Relevancy When Algorithmic Evidence is Presented to Lay Fact-Finders”
15:15 Coffee
15:45 – 16:45 Anne Ruth Mackor (University of Groningen)
“Preventing Miscarriages of Justice”
NSG Spring Program 2023
March 7, 17:00 CET
Liat Levanon, King’s College London
“Evidence, Counterfactuals and Normativity”
March 21, 17:00 CET
Colin Aitken, University of Edinburgh
Ronald Allen, Northwestern University
Discussion on the Bayesian Approach to Legal Evidence v. Relative Plausibility
April 4, 17:00 CEST
Bill Thompson, University of California at Irvine
“Managing and Explaining Uncertainty in Probabilistic Genotyping: A Case Study”
April 18, 17:00 CEST
Federico Picinali, London School of Economics
“Justice In-Between”
May 2, 17:00 CEST
Christian Dahlman, Lund University
“A Systematic Account of Probabilistic Fallacies in Legal Fact-Finding”
On-Line Seminars on Legal Evidence – Fall 2022 program
October 18, 17:00 CET
Moa Lidén, University College London
“Confirmation Bias in Criminal Litigations”
November 1, 17:00 CET
Gary Edmond, University of New South Wales
“Opinion, Bias and Double-Dipping: Misunderstanding Evidence in Trials and Appeals”
November 15, 17:00 CET
Giulia Lasagni, University of Bologna
“Criteria for Admission of Digital Evidence“
November 29, 17:00 CET
Marcello Di Bello, Arizona State University & Rafal Urbaniak, University of Gdansk
“Weight of Evidence, Evidential Completeness and Accuracy”
On-Line Seminars on Legal Evidence – Spring Program 2022
February 22, 17:00 CET
Yvonne McDermott Rees, Swansea University
“The Standard(s) of Proof before the International Criminal Court”
March 8, 17:00 CET
Ronald J. Allen, Northwestern University
“The Law’s Aversion to Naked Statistics and Other Mistakes”
March 22, 17:00 CET
Richard Gill, Leiden University
“Coincidence or Healthcare Serial Killer? Statistical Issues in an Investigation
of Suspected Medical Misconduct”
April 5, 17:00 CET
William Thompson, University of California at Irvine
“Using Bayesian Networks to Explore the Legal Implications of Contextual Bias
in Forensic Science”
April 19, 17:00 CET
Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham
“Theorizing Evidence – What did we Learn?”
May 3, 17:00 CET
Sarah Moss, University of Michigan
“Knowledge and Legal Proof”
May 17, 17:00 CET
Joseph B. Kadane, Carnegie Mellon University & Anders Nordgaard, Linköping University
”Using Bayes Factors to Limit Forensic Testimony to Forensics”
On-line seminars on chapters in Dahlman, Stein & Tuzet (eds.) Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law, OUP, 2021
21-11-16, 17:00-18:00 CET
Christian Dahlman, Lund (Sweden), Amit Pundik, Tel Aviv (Israel)
The Problem of Naked Statistical Evidence
21-11-09, 17:00-18:00 CET
Giovanni Tuzet, Bocconi (Italy)
The Pragmatics of Evidence Discourse
21-11-02, 17:00-18:00 CET
Frank Zenker, Istanbul (Turkey)
De-Biasing Legal Fact-Finders
21-10-26, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Michael Pardo, Georgetown (USA), Ronald Allen, Northwestern (USA)
Generalizations and Reference Classes
21-10-19, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Christian Dahlman, Lund (Sweden), Eivind Kolflaath, Bergen (Norway)
The Problem of the Prior in Criminal Trials
21-10-12, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Anne Ruth Mackor, Groningen (Netherlands), Peter van Koppen, Maastricht (Netherlands)
The Scenario Theory about Evidence in Criminal Law
21-10-05, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Justin Sevier, Florida State College of Law (USA)
Evidence Law and Empirical Psychology
21-09-28, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Floris Bex, Tilburg (Netherlands)
Argumentation and Evidence
21-09-21, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Emily Spottswood, Florida State College of Law (USA)
Burdens of Proof
21-09-14, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Alex Stein, Israel Supreme Court
Second-Personal Evidence
21-05-18, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Lena Wahlberg (Lund University) & Christian Dahlman (Lund University)
The Role of the Expert Witness
21-05-11, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Norman Fenton (Queen Mary) & David Lagnado (UCL)
Bayesianism: Objections and Rebuttals
21-05-04, 17:00-18:00 CET
Ronald Allen (Northwestern University) & Michael Pardo (Georgetown University)
Inference to the Best Explanation, Relative Plausibility and Probability
21-04-27, 17:00-18:00 CET
Julia Simon-Kerr (University of Connecticut)
Relevance through a Feminist Lens
21-04-20, 17:00-18:00 CET
Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia)
The Role of Rules in the Law of Evidence
21-04-13, 17:00-18:00 CET
Dale Nance (Case Western Reserve University)
Weight of Evidence
21-04-06, 17:00-18:00 CET
Jasmine Gonzales Rose (Boston University School of Law)
Race, Evidence and Epistemic Injustice
21-03-30, 17:00-18:00 CET
Emily Spottswood (Florida State College of Law)
Paradoxes of Proof
21-03-23, 17:00-18:00 CET
Franco Taroni (Lausanne), Alex Biedermann (Lausanne) & Silvia Bozza (Venice)
The Logic of Inference and Decision for Scientific Evidence
21-03-16, 17:00-18:00 CET
Amalia Amaya (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Coherence in Legal Evidence
21-03-09, 17:00-18:00 CET
Lawrence Solan (Brooklyn Law School)
Linguistic Evidentials and the Law of Hearsay
21-03-02, 17:00-18:00 CET
Talia Fisher (Tel-Aviv)
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Fact-finding
21-02-23, 17:00-18:00 CET
Jules Holroyd (Sheffield) & Federico Picinali (London School of Economics)
Excluding Evidence for Integrity’s Sake
21-02-16, 17:00-18:00 CET
Gabriel Broughton (Princeton) & Brian Leiter (Chicago)
The Naturalized Epistemology Approach to Evidence
North Sea Group - Legal evidence & Proof 