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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

William Twining is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary research contributions lie within the social sciences, with a particular focus on law. The subfields of study that characterize their work include law, political science and international relations, economics and econometrics, as well as organizational behavior and human resource management.

The main topics covered in Twining's research span various areas related to legal studies and social sciences. These include:

  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations
  • Comparative and International Law Studies
  • Legal Principles and Applications
  • Jury Decision Making Processes
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Law in Society and Culture
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies

Twining's recent publications reflect engagement with multiple aspects of law and society. Notable papers include:

  • "Mapping law: the MacDermott Lecture" (2020), published in Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
  • "Jurist in Context: William Twining in Conversation with David Sugarman" (2020), published in Journal of Law and Society
  • "Response to comments" (2020), published in International Journal of Law in Context
  • "Transformation" (2021), published in International Journal of Law in Context
  • "MacDermott Lecture 1998: Mapping law" (2022), published in Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly

William Twining has collaborated with other researchers, most notably David Sugarman.

Throughout their career, Twining has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
  • International Journal of Law in Context
  • Journal of Law and Society

They were awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, reflecting recognition within the broader academic community.

Best Publications

  • General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective

    William L. Twining

  • Globalisation and legal theory

    William L. Twining

  • Analysis of Evidence

    Terence J. Anderson;David A. Schum;William L. Twining

  • Rethinking Evidence: Table of cases

    Unknown

  • Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement

    William L. Twining

  • Rethinking Evidence: Exploratory Essays

    William L. Twining

  • How to Do Things with Rules

    R. A. MacDonald;William Twining;David Miers

  • Normative and Legal Pluralism: A Global Perspective

    William Twining

  • Theories of Evidence: Bentham and Wigmore

    William L. Twining

  • How to Do Things with Rules

    Unknown

  • Diffusion of Law: A Global Perspective

    William Twining

  • Blackstone's tower: The English law school

    William L. Twining

  • Social Science and Diffusion of Law

    William Twining

  • Human rights: southern voices - Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na’im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi

    William L. Twining

  • Have concepts, will travel: analytical jurisprudence in a global context

    William Twining

  • Analysis of Evidence: How to Do Things with Facts Based on Wigmore's Science of Judicial Proof

    Terence J. Anderson;William L. Twining

  • Pericles and the plumber

    William Twining

  • General Jurisprudence: Index

    Unknown

  • Evidence, Inference and Enquiry

    Philip Dawid;William L. Twining;Mimi Vasilaki

  • Legal theory and common law

    Robert R. Morse join(;William Twining

  • How to Do Things with Rules: A Primer of Interpretation

    William L. Twining;David Miers

  • Legal fictions in theory and practice

    Maksymilian Del Mar;William L. Twining

  • A Post‐Westphalian Conception of Law

    William Twining

  • Law in Context: Enlarging A Discipline

    William Twining

  • Jurist in Context: A Memoir

    William Twining

  • Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject

    William Twining

  • Issues of self-determination

    William L. Twining

  • Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement

    Grant Gilmore;William Twining

  • Legal Theory and Common Law

    Stephen Hicks;William Twining

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