Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law

Christian Dahlman is Professor of Jurisprudence at Lund University (Sweden) and holds the Samuel Pufendorf chair at the Faculty of Law. He has a PhD in philosophy of law from Lund University and his academic career includes a research fellowship at Cambridge University. His main area of research is the theory and methodology of legal evidence. He is the director of the cross-disciplinary research group LEVIC (Law, Evidence and Cognition) at Lund University. Alex Stein is a Justice of the Israel Supreme Court. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of London. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he served as a Professor of Law at the Hebrew University, Cardozo Law School and Brooklyn Law School and as a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, Harvard and Yale law schools, among others. His areas of research include Evidence, Legal Theory, and Economic Analysis of Law. Giovanni Tuzet is Professor of Philosophy of Law at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy). He studied law and philosophy in Turin and Paris and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on C.S. Peirce's theory of inference. Before joining Bocconi University, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Lausanne (Switzerland) and Ferrara (Italy). His areas of interest include evidence, epistemology, pragmatism, argumentation theory, philosophy of law and economic analysis of law.