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30.05.2024 - 31.05.2024
In criminal proceedings, there is wide consensus that the attribution of liability and the imposition of punishment is dependent on the prosecution being able to prove that the accused is guilty of having committed a criminal offence. Less clarity surrounds the scope, regulation and indeed justification of the degree or level of proof which must be met in order to support a criminal conviction. This lack of consensus reflects variety in the regulation of proof in different national and international legal jurisdictions, disagreements about the scope of the presumption of innocence and other underlying procedural principles, differences in the normative understanding of the purpose of criminal proceedings and differences in the conceptualisation of the epistemic ambitions of criminal proceedings. This workshop sets out to bring inter-disciplinary and comparative perspectives on these issues and to examine the claim that the standard of proof is or ought to be higher in criminal proceedings than in other types of proceedings, such as those involving civil or administrative claims. The workshop is split into two parts (spring 2024: 30.05. - 31.05.2024 and spring 2025, date tbd) and both parts will take place in Zurich.
Chair: John Jackson (Nottingham) / Sarah Summers (Zurich)
| 09.00 | Coffee / Tea |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Introduction |
| 10.00 - 12.00 |
Christian Dahlman (Lund), 'Against Plausibility' Giovanni Tuzet (Bocconi), 'Standards of Proof: Qualitative or Quantitative?' |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 - 15.00 |
Paul Roberts (Nottingham), 'Standardizing Proof' Tshepo Mosaka (Cape Town), 'Normative Proof' |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee |
| 15.30 - 16.30 |
Antony Duff (Stirling) / Sandra Marshall (Stirling), '"We find You Guilty": The Standard of Proof and the Second Person Voice' |
| 18.00 | Apéro / Dinner, Seeclub Zürich, Mythenquai 75, 8002 Zürich |
| 08.30 | Coffee / Tea |
| 09.00 - 11.00 |
Thomas Weigend (Cologne), 'The purposes of the criminal process (and their relation to determining the truth)' Lewis Ross (LSE), 'Civil Blame' |
| 11.00 - 11.20 | Coffee / Tea |
| 11.20 - 12.20 |
Yvonne McDermott-Rees (Swansea), 'The Standard(s) of Proof in International Criminal Trials?' |
| 12.20 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 15.30 |
Mauricio Duce (UDP), 'The standard of proof in Latin American criminal procedure and the Chilean case in action: beyond any reasonable doubt?' André Klip (Maastricht), 'The new standard of proof in the Netherlands - from the judge's intimate conviction to beyond reasonable doubt' |
| 18.00 | Apéro / Dinner, Restaurant zum Kropf, In Gassen 16, 8001 Zürich |
