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Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment

Autor Norma Thompson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 dec 2011
"Part detective story, part social commentary, part intellectual autobiography, part philosophical analysis, this is a jury book unlike any other."—Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law and former dean, Yale Law School
"[Norma Thompson] teaches us, brilliantly and painlessly, why judging, as opposed to simply knowing, is an essential part of a responsible human existence, recounting the trials and crimes and moral dilemmas of antiquity and classical tradition in a stunningly original reading."—Abraham D. Sofaer, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and former United States district judge
In 2001, Norma Thompson served on the jury in a murder trial in New Haven, Connecticut. In Unreasonable Doubt, Thompson dramatically depicts the jury's deliberations, which ended in a deadlock. As foreperson, she pondered the behavior of some of her fellow jurors that led to the trial's termination in a hung jury. Blending personal memoir, social analysis, and literary criticism, she addresses the evasion of judgment she witnessed during deliberations and relates that evasion to contemporary political, social, and legal affairs. She then assembles an imaginary jury of Alexis de Tocqueville, Plato, and Jane Austen, among others, to show how the writings of these authors can help model responsible habits of deliberation.
Norma Thompson is senior lecturer in humanities and associate director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She is the author most recently of The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America.
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ISBN-13: 9781589880726
ISBN-10: 1589880722
Pagini: 233
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: PAUL DRY BOOKS
Colecția Paul Dry Books

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Praise for Norma Thompson and Unreasonable Doubt
"Part detective story, part social commentary, part intellectual autobiography, part philosophical analysis, this is a jury book unlike any other."—Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law and former dean, Yale Law School
"[Norma Thompson] teaches us, brilliantly and painlessly, why judging, as opposed to simply knowing, is an essential part of a responsible human existence, recounting the trials and crimes and moral dilemmas of antiquity and classical tradition in a stunningly original reading."—Abraham D. Sofaer, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and former United States district judge

Notă biografică

Norma Thompson: Norma Thompson is Senior Lecturer in the Humanities and Associate Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She is the author or editor of several books, most recently The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America.

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Sit in the jury box, then observe the deliberations, as Norma Thompson takes you inside a real-life murder trial.