April 29, 2011

BY-LAWS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Evidence Science

The object of the International Association of Evidence Science is to promote the international development of the evidence science by encouraging collaboration among evidence scholars, lawyers and forensic scientists and the exchange of information concerning data, publications, and documents; to promote interdisciplinary and international communications; and to plan, organize and administer meetings, facilitate research and the preparation of reports, and other projects for the stimulation and advancement of these and related purposes. To achieve these objects the Association will in particular: (a) organise Congresses and international colloquia; (b) cooperate with national and multinational associations of evidence, science and law; (c) provide for the publication of an information bulletin concerning the activities of the association, the proceedings at Congresses and colloquia and any other work considered by the executive committee to further the objects of the association.

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ICELFS

Evidence science is a comprehensive scientific theory and methodology which combing the method of natural science and social science to study the evidence collection, forensic service technology, ascertaining the fact of cases and the legal application. Evidence science shows an irreplaceable role on achieving rule of law and judicial justice, which also has more and more perspective on public service. In order to promote international academic exchanges and interdisciplinary studies on evidence science, the Key Laboratory for Evidence Science of Ministry of Education (China University of Political Science and Law) has hosted the first, the second and the third International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science in December, 2007, July, 2009 and July, 2011. In future, the International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science will be an important activity of the International Association of Evidence Science.

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December 01, 2011

Activities

According to By-laws of the International Association of Evidence Science, following activities will be organized: (a) organize Congresses and international colloquia, decide where they are to be held and indicate the subjects for discussion. Congresses will be held at least every six years and colloquia at least every two years;(b)cooperate with national and multinational associations of evidence, science, and law;(c)provide for the publication of an information bulletin concerning the activities of the association, the proceedings at Congresses and colloquia and any other work considered by the executive committee to further the objects of the association.

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December 01, 2011

International Association of Evidence Science Was Formally Founded in Beijing

In the afternoon, July 17, 2011, when the 3rd International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science which was hosted by Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science of China University of Political Science and Law was in session, The 1st Plenary Session of the 1st Council of the International Association of Evidence Science was held in Beijing. This plenary session was chaired by Ronald J. Allen, professor of Law School of Northwestern University in USA. Twenty two evidence law scholars and forensic scientists from China, America, Australia, Italy, Israel, Tanzania, Korea, Japan, Hungary, Vietnam, etc. took part in the session. They discussed seriously about the name of the association, object of the association, By-Laws of the association, and proposed the list of candidates of the Council of the Association.

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Michele Taruffo

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Professor Michele TARUFFO

University of Pavia

Italy

Born in 1943, since 1976 Michele Taruffo is Professor of Law in the School of Law of the University of Pavia (Italy), where he teaches Civil Procedure and for several years taught also Comparative Procedural Law and Dispute Resolution. Currently he also teaches a course on Methods of Dispute Resolution in the doctorate on Economy, Law and Institutions of the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS) of the University of Pavia, and a course on Techniques of Legal Argumentation in the School for Legal Professions of Pavia-Milano.

As a visiting professor, Michele Taruffo taught courses on Comparative Civil Justice and seminars on the Theory of Evidence at the Cornell Law School in the years 1994, 1995 and 1996, and at the Hastings College of the Law of the University of California in San Francisco in the year 2003.

Professor Taruffo is a member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the American Law Institute, the Bielefelder Kreis, the International Association of Procedural Law, the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual, the Academia Brasileira de Direito Constitutional, the Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Francaise, the Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato, the Associazione Italiana tra gli Studiosi del Diritto Processuale, and other associations in the domains of procedural law, comparative law, jurisprudence and legal theory. He is also a member of the scientific boards of several legal and philosophical journals in Italy and abroad.

Professor Taruffo is currently a Vice-President of the International Association of Procedural Law and a Vice-President of the Scientific Committee of the 3rd Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science (Bejing, China). He is also a honorary professor of the Instituto de la Judicatura Federal of Mexico and an Académico Honorario of the Academia Peruana de Derecho. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the “Centro Studi Federico Stella sulla giustizia penale” and a scientific advisor of the ETS publisher (Pisa, Italy) for the collection JURA, and of the Editorial Marcial Pons (Madrid-Barcelona-Buenos Aires) for the collection on civil procedure.

In 2010 Professor Taruffo received a honorary degree in law from the Universidad Austral of Valdivia (Chile).

Professor Taruffo published several books: Studi sulla rilevanza della prova (1970); La motivazione della sentenza civile (1975), published also in Spain; Il processo civile “adversary” nell’esperienza americana (1979), published also in Colombia; La giustizia civile in Italia dal ‘700 ad oggi (1980); Il vertice ambiguo. Saggi sulla Cassazione civile (1991), published also in Peru; La prova dei fatti giuridici. Nozioni generali (1992), published also in Spain; Sui confini. Scritti sulla giustizia civile (2002), published also in Colombia; Cinco lecciones mexicanas (2002): La prueba (2009) (forthcoming also in Portuguese and in English); Páginas sobre justicia civil (2009); La semplice verità. Il giudice e la costruzione dei fatti (2009) (publidhed also in Spanish and Portuguese); La prueba. Articulos y Conferencias, Santiago de Chile 2009. Taruffo is also author of the chapter on Evidence in the vol.XVI of the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (published in 2009).

With Geoffrey C. Hazard he published American Civil Procedure. An Introduction (1993), also published in Italy, Spain, Japan and China. With L.P.Comoglio and C.Ferri he published Lezioni sul processo civile (5th ed., 2010). He also edited the book Abuse of Procedural Rights (1999). With Federico Carpi he is also editor of the Commentario breve al codice di procedura civile (6th ed., 2009).

Professor Taruffo published several dozens of essays on procedural, comparative and philosophical topics, in Italy and abroad. He delivered lectures in many Universities including Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Tulane, Toronto, Cornell, Hastings, London, Oxford, Madrid, Barcelona, Castellon, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Frankfurt, Krakow, Warsaw, Lublin, Tokyo, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Mexico, Morelia, Rovaniemi, Helsinki, Turku, Tbilisi, Moscow, Montevideo, Puerto Madryn, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Bogotà, Medellin, Pereira, Cali, Cartagena de Indias, Lima, Santiago de Chile.

With Geoffrey C.Hazard he was co-reporter of the American Law Institute and UNIDROIT project concerning Principles and Rules for Transnational Civil Procedure.

Professor Taruffo’s main fields of interest are: civil litigation and dispute resolution, transnational litigation and arbitration, comparative law of evidence, comparative civil justice, jurisprudence, adjudication and legal theory, epistemology, legal history.