Criminal evidence and procedure, especially philosophical, comparative, socio-legal and jurisprudential dimensions; legal argumentation, inferential reasoning, fact-finding and proof; forensic science evidence and expert witnesses; criminal law theory
James Q. Whitman's research interests are comparative law and legal history, especially of the Roman legal tradition; and comparative law of United States and continental Europe.
International legal institutions; international legal theories, particularly critical and feminist theories
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