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CATEGORIES:Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Semi
 nars
SUMMARY:The Search for Truth in the American Justice Syste
 m - Andrew Porwancher
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100511T131000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/24655
DESCRIPTION:A core function of jury trials is to sort out trut
 h from falsehood\, and so the courtroom can serve 
 as an illustrative microcosm of society's broader 
 effort to grapple with the question\, "What is tru
 th?" My research explores fact-finding procedures\
 , or "evidence law\," in American courtrooms from 
 1890 to 1940. Legal historians\, not unlike legal 
 practitioners\, see evidence law as a set of prosa
 ic institutional rules\, possessed of little relat
 ion to important philosophical questions. Converse
 ly\, I argue that judicial inquiry was part and pa
 rcel of America's broad struggle to establish cred
 ible truths against the backdrop of sweeping moder
 nization.\n
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
CONTACT:Dr Hilary Powell
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