Shadows of doubt: the uneasy incorporation of identification science into legal determination of paternity in Brazil

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Sueann Caulfield (مؤلف), Alexandra Minna Stern (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.
• الموضوعات: article
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The arrival of DNA paternity testing in the 1980s was met with great enthusiasm in the Brazilian courts. Yet, over the past two decades, Brazilian legal doctrine and jurisprudence have increasingly rejected DNA proof as the sine qua non for paternity cases. Instead, DNA paternity testing has generat...