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- Title
Imwinkelried's Arguement for Normative Ethical Testimony.
- Authors
Barnes, David W.
- Abstract
Focuses on the arguments of Edward Imwinkelried, former chairman of the Evidence Section of the American Association of Law Schools, which attempted to justify the admissibility of normative ethical expertise in the face of a legal evidentiary rule requiring a scientific bases for expert testimony. Distinction between adjudicative facts and legislative facts; Failure of Imwinkelried to offer rationale to support his assertion that normative ethical, as opposed to descriptive ethical or metaethical, expert testimony is relevant; Misinterpretation of Imwinkelried of the tort law.
- Subjects
NORMATIVITY (Ethics); IMWINKELRIED, Edward; ETHICS; WITNESSES; LEGAL evidence; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); LAW &; ethics
- Publication
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2005, Vol 33, Issue 2, p234
- ISSN
1073-1105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1748-720X.2005.tb00489.x