Third course

The course will address the role of standards of proof in evidentiary reasoning and their relationship to safeguards such as due process and duty to state reasons. The relationship of standards of proof to other rules of evidentiary decisions will also be discussed, such as the burden of proof or presumptions and, in particular, the presumption of innocence. The methodological requirements for the correct formulation of the standards or proof will be presented, as well as the eminently political character of the determination of the threshold of sufficient evidence. Finally, a series of examples will be presented to better visualize how standards of proof could be formulated.