Epistemic Forensics
Navigating Synthetic Evidence and Digital Authenticity in Litigation
For law students, solicitors, barristers and legal practitioners: identify, challenge and evaluate deepfakes, synthetic media and manipulated digital evidence, resist veridical bias without sliding into hyper-scepticism, and triage authenticity, expert reliability and intent in court
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Course Modules
Module 1: Veridical Bias and the Seeing Is Believing Problem
3 lessons
The psychology of why judges, juries, lawyers and witnesses instinctively trust photographs, audio and video, and why synthetic media exploits that trust.
Module 2: The Epistemology of Digital Artefacts
3 lessons
Moving beyond traditional chain-of-custody models to account for algorithmic manipulation, generative placeholders and metadata falsification.
Module 3: Forensic Scepticism Versus Hyper-Scepticism
3 lessons
Systematically interrogating digital media without falling into epistemic nihilism, where every unfavourable recording is dismissed as fake.
Module 4: Evidentiary Triage in Court
3 lessons
How courts approach threshold questions of synthetic evidence, expert reliability, and the distinction between proving authenticity and proving intent.