Titlebook: Historians as Expert Judicial Witnesses in Tobacco Litigation; A Controversial Lega Ramses Delafontaine Book 2015 Springer International Pu

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Tobacco Litigationiffs and defendants in tobacco litigation through basic forms of legal game theory. This chapter is also based on the results of my inquiry into the involvement of US historians in tobacco litigation between 1986 and 2014, comprising of 50 historians and 314 cases.

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Book 2015ook focuses on tobacco litigation in the U.S. wherein 50 historians have witnessed in 314 court cases from 1986 to 2014. The author examines the use of historical arguments in court and investigates how a legal context influences historical narratives and discourse in forensic history. Delafontaine

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General Introduction,co litigation. The first part introduces the concept of . and the issues it implies for historians in court. The second part gives a general introduction to forensic history. By discussing several European and American examples I revaluate the term forensic history as conceived by Alain Wijffels. In

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Introductory Theoretical Remarks on the Alleged Problematic Nature of the Interaction of History andretical point of view, are conceived as controversial in the courtroom. By discussing certain issues from theoretical history in an interdisciplinary context of law and history, I lay the theoretical groundwork in which I will discuss forensic history.

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Clio’s Modern Paradox Unraveledbility in court on an epistemological level. An introduction into these issues helps us understand why historians and most expert witnesses tend to cling to their alleged objectivity and why historians would do well to leave it behind.

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Introduction Part IIhe term .. Wijffels concentrated the conclusions of his work . on post-Holocaust trials and Holocaust denial trials (Wijffels, Alain. 2001. . Leiden: Ius Deco). These brought him to a rather negative conclusion on the involvement of historians in the courtroom. In order to reassess Wijffels’ term, I

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The Globalization of the Historian as an Expert Witnessan trials where historians have been active as expert judicial witnesses. These categories consist of the Eichmann trial, the German Frankfurt-Auschwitz Trials, and the Ludwigsburg Paradigm, the French Vichy trials, and the Holocaust denial trials like ..

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Litigation-Driven Historyentions and debate of expert witnessing at the end of the nineteenth century, after which it turns to ., the Sears case, and an example from toxic tort litigation. The following topic discusses a practical guide to expert witnessing in the American judicial system for historians. Legal as well as ex

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A Reassessment of Wijffels’ Concept of Forensic Historyes with the controversial practice of historians serving as expert judicial witness. My aim is to counter the argument made by Wijffels that historians should limit their involvement to providing historical facts for lawyers instead of testifying in court.