As Jasanoff has shown in het ’Science at the Bar’, law is at least partly constitutive of science(-policy). In this paper I try to look into the possibility of an adequate communication between lawyer and expert in court, precisely because many influencial decisions are take on the basis op expert-opinion. I plead for the relevance of C.S. Peirce’s distinction of abductive, deductive and inductive reasoning, hoping to provide judges with adequate tools to rethink and re-act the everyday (...)
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