153 results
Showing 1–20 · 0.26 seconds · RSS
Quaestio Facti, Iss 10 (2026)
Scopus
ISSN 2660-4515 · Universitat de Girona. Cátedra de Cultura Jurídica · 153 articles in the index
-
Journal Article
Legal Epistemology and Legal Proof
This article examines the relationship between legal epistemology and legal proof. On the one hand, there has been an explosion of recent scholarship applying philosophical ideas, concepts, and arguments from epistemology to the law of evidence and the process of proving facts in legal settings. On…
-
Journal Article Full text
Motivos para repensar la violencia política contra las mujeres por razones de género
La legislación mexicana prevé una infracción administrativa electoral que busca disuadir y sancionar la violencia contra las mujeres en el ámbito político. En este trabajo se exponen algunas de las complejidades probatorias que se presentan al intentar demostrar la comisión de esta conducta, y se…
Also available at: DOAJ
-
Journal Article
Bayesian modelling of criminal cases as a whole
The Bayesian model is gaining ground in criminal law as a rational method for evaluating evidence. The central question of this article is whether the Bayesian model can provide guidance for the judicial evaluation of evidence. More specifically, it focuses on the use of Bayesian modelling of…
-
Journal Article
Larry Laudan, the Pursuit of Truth, and the Meaninglessness of Burdens of Persuasion
Inspired by the work of Larry Laudan, the meaninglessness of current conventional understandings and discussions of burdens of persuasion is demonstrated. The conventional view is that burdens of persuasion are a mechanism to fine tune error distribution at trial. To the contrary, it is…
-
Journal Article
Bayesian Decision Theory Can Guide Legal Factfinding
I argue that Bayesian decision theory can guide legal factfinding. I do so by offering an account of legal proof on which judges should minimize expected justice costs. My account entails a judge’s credence threshold for finding guilty and his prior credence of guilt. Hence, it can guide a judge in…
-
Journal Article
«Carga» de la prueba: del réquiem a la obertura
El presente artículo examina críticamente la noción de «carga de la prueba», cuestionando su formulación tradicional como carga subjetiva. Se argumenta que dicho concepto carece de precisión técnica, proponiéndose en su lugar la categoría de «condición contribuyente» para explicar la influencia de…
-
Journal Article
Proving Customary Norms
This article addresses the epistemological and conceptual challenges involved in proving the existence of customary norms in international law. It argues that confusion surrounding usus and opinio juris stems from a failure to distinguish between the ontology of customary norms and the…
-
Journal Article
The Myth of Judicial Objectivity: Why Subjectivity is The Only Path to a Transparent Trial
This comment addresses the ‘prior challenge’ in forensic Bayesian modelling, recently highlighted by Anne Ruth Mackor (2026). We argue that the perceived lack of frequency data is not an insurmountable obstacle but a misconception rooted in an outdated view of probability. By adopting a radical…
-
Journal Article
Más Allá de La Interfaz: Deslindes y Singularidades del Truthmaker Digital
Este trabajo examina la función del hecho digital como truthmaker en el razonamiento probatorio. Sostiene que los objetos digitales que se presentan como prueba en el proceso —capturas de pantalla, fotografías digitales, registros, logs u otras visualizaciones— son formas de acceso a un tipo de…
-
Journal Article
Prova Pericial e Vieses Cognitivos: o problema dos quesitos e dos quesitos complementares no processo penal brasileiro
O artigo aborda o problema dos vieses cognitivos na produção da prova pericial, focando no processo penal brasileiro. A partir da análise descritiva de estudos empíricos realizados, conceitua esses vieses, no que consistem os vieses de confirmação e de contexto, como podem afetar essa prova e o que…
-
Journal Article
¿Ven lo mismo expertos y novatos? Sobre la estructura de la experiencia perceptual y la fuerza de las inferencias
Este trabajo sostiene que la diferencia entre el testimonio de novatos y el testimonio de expertos no se reduce solo a una cuestión de grados de conocimiento, sino que involucra una diferencia estructural en la experiencia perceptiva. A partir de la noción de penetrabilidad cognitiva, se argumenta…
-
Journal Article
What goes around comes around: why the critique of expert-led integral bayesian modelling also undermines judge-led bayesian modelling
This article offers an internal refutation of Anne Ruth Mackor’s defence of court-led integral Bayesian modelling in criminal adjudication. Mackor usefully distinguishes between the now well-established Bayesian treatment of individual items of forensic evidence and the more controversial Bayesian…
-
Journal Article
Events and identity in probabilistic models of legal evidence
This paper examines whether Bayesian networks are expressive enough to model reasoning with evidence in legal cases. Bayesian networks can represent many familiar patterns of evidential reasoning, including inferences from evidence to hypotheses, cumulative support from multiple items of evidence…
-
Journal Article
Combatting bayesian criticism: a bayesian-inspired critical checklist for judicial reasoning
This paper develops a Bayesian-inspired checklist of critical questions designed to support probabilistic reasoning in legal contexts. Building on Mackor’s (2026) proposal, rather than requiring formal Bayesian models or numerical probabilities, the framework translates key Bayesian principles into…
-
Journal Article
La conducta de las partes como prueba en el proceso civil brasileño
El texto explora la conducta de las partes como elemento probatorio en el proceso civil brasileño. Se examina la tendencia de la legislación brasileña a utilizar esta prueba solamente como indicio, lo que plantea varios obstáculos para su empleo en el ámbito del proceso civil. Se critica este punto…
-
Journal Article
La Prueba de hechos futuros
Toda disciplina debe lidiar con algunos problemas de vocabulario que surgen cuando las categorías disponibles, los términos que utilizamos en nuestro lenguaje cotidiano, no resultan satisfactorias para llevar a cabo una empresa investigativa con la precisión que se estima necesaria. Producto de…
-
Journal Article Full text
Epistemic Injustice in the Criminal Trial
Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Rachel Herdy, Tareeq Jalloh and Abenaa Owusu-Bempah have each written a paper commenting on my essay ‘Evidential Reasoning, Testimonial Injustice and the Fairness of the Criminal Trial’, which appeared in Quaestio Facti in 2024. In this reply I engage with their insightful…