The two conceptual dififculties of specialized evidence
I am distinctively honored to be asked to deliver this address. My admiration for many of the people in this room is overlfowing. Among the Chinese are those who are, literally, responsible for facilitating the long march of China to the rule of law.1 This is no easy task, given the insanity of the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution that together destroyed any semblance of a rational legal system and as a by-product extirpated, again literally, legal knowledge from China; law schools were closed and books were burned. Over the last few years, I have also come to deeply admire the efforts of the Swiss forensic scientists to establish their various ifelds on sound conceptual and empirical foundations and who are struggling with the very topic of this address, the conceptual difficulties specialized evidence poses for the legal resolution of disputes. The European Network of Forensic Science Institutes” Guideline for Evaluative Reporting in Forensic Science is both a clear statement of these difficulties and offers very helpful recommendations that if implemented would ameliorate some of them.
rule of law
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A84
2017-05-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
共9页
121-129
