ABSTRACT
Henrik Zahle received his law degree from the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, in 1968, and immediately thereafter, he worked as a trainee lawyer in a law firm of Supreme Court barristers. But the university seemed more appealing to him than a profession as a lawyer, and in 1969 he joined the University of Copenhagen in order to write a thesis on one of the fundamental issues of law, the production of legal evidence. The subject is ‘quite hardcore’ with ample opportunities to demonstrate analytical skills, but it is at the same time a legal hornet’s nest where, at that time, notably a number of Swedish lawyers had developed theories they were not ready to give up without any further ado, just because a new post-graduate researcher entered the stage.
