Peter Tillers
Peter Tillers, American scholar of the
Tillers was a reviser of John Henry Wigmore's multi-volume treatise on the law of evidence and published a variety of articles on evidence, inference, and investigation.[2]
He was an editor of the Oxford journal Law, Probability and Risk. Tillers was chairman and secretary of the Evidence Section of the
Tillers' scholarship focused on evidential inference and fact investigation in legal settings. He maintained that multiple methods of marshaling and analyzing evidence are important in trials and in pretrial investigation and informal fact discovery (and in many other human domains). He maintained that inference networks offer a useful window into investigative discovery and proof at trial. But he believed that subjective, synthetic, and gestalt-like perspectives on evidence, inference, and proof are also essential. (This aspect of his thinking about evidential inference is almost undoubtedly attributable to his early interest in
Tillers came to the conclusion that real headway in the study of human inference (and of much else) can be made if and only if it is understood that the human animal is an intelligent organism that "thinks" both at a conscious and subconscious level; he believed that Aristotle was fundamentally right in the way he, Aristotle, viewed (wo)man and his (her) place in the cosmos.
Publications
- Editor, Evidence Module [1] of Spindle Law [2] (draft released, Nov. 16, 2009)
- Crime, Procedure, and Evidence in a Comparative and International Context (2008) (co-edited with John Jackson & Maximo Langer)
- The Dynamics of Judicial Proof: Computation, Logic, and Common Sense (2002) (co-edited with Marilyn MacCrimmon)
- Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Uses and Limits of Bayesianism (1988) (co-edited with Eric Green), republished as L'Inferenza nel diritto probabilistica nel diritto delle prove: Usi e limiti del bayesianesimo (A. Mura trans., Giuffre editore, 2003)
- Vols. I & IA Wigmore on Evidence (P. Tillers rev. 1983)
References
- ^ Professor Peter Tillers, longtime faculty member and scholar in evidence, passed away at 72 // Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Cardozo News 2015, 28, Oct 14 2015
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