General Theory of Evidence and Proof

Prof. Kevin M. Clermont is the Ziff Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, he also attended law school in France as a Fulbright Scholar. Next there was a judicial clerkship and practice on Wall Street, before entry into teaching at Cornell University. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2008. His field is civil procedure, with a specialty in the theory of proof. Professor Clermont has published extensively, including coauthoring books both on introduction to law and on civil procedure, Law for Society: Nature, Functions, and Limits (2010) and Materials for a Basic Course in Civil Procedure (14th ed. 2023), as well as sole authoring and editing many other books on civil procedure. On proof, he has written the book Standards of Decision in Law: Psychological and Logical Bases for the Standard of Proof, Here and Abroad (2013) and nineteen journal articles over a period of thirty years.

• Introduction.- Kinds of Uncertainty.- Bivalent Probabilities.- Multivalent Beliefs.- Factfinding Deconstructed Logically.- Generalizing Beyond Factfinding.- Conclusion.