The Judge & The Historian by Carlo Ginzburg
Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice
Blending legal analysis and microhistorical inquiry, this study reexamines a late-twentieth-century Italian murder trial from the Years of Lead, scrutinizing witness testimony, memory, and documentary traces to reveal contradictions that underpinned the convictions. It contrasts judicial certainty with the historian’s probabilistic method, showing how political pressures and narrative closure can override doubt, and argues for a more rigorous, transparent approach to evidence to guard against miscarriages of justice.
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- Published
- 1991
- Nationality
- Italian
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-230
- Original Language
- Italian
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- Il giudice e lo storico
- The Judge and the Historian
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