The principal required texts are the following:

Peter Tillers & David Schum, "A Theory of Preliminary Fact Investigation," 24 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 931 (1991)

The following text is recommended but not required:

Terence Anderson, David Schum & William Twining, ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE (2d ed., 2005)

Abduction -- the imaginative formation of possibilities or hypotheses -- plays an important part in exploratory fact investigation. See the following web page for a concise and useful encyclopedia entry about "abduction":

The following books & materials are available in Cardozo's law library:

Terence Anderson & William Twining, ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE (Little, Brown & Co., 1991 or paperback reprint, Northwestern U. Press, 1998)

Terence Anderson, David Schum & William Twining, ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE (Cambridge U. Press, 2d ed., 2005)

D. Binder & P. Bergman, FACT INVESTIGATION: FROM HYPOTHESIS TO PROOF (1984)

D. Binder, A. Moore & P. Bergman, DEPOSITION QUESTIONING STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES (2001)

R. Lawrence Dessem, PRETRIAL LITIGATION: LAW, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (West, 3d ed., 2001)

Umberto Eco & Thomas Sebeok, eds., THE SIGN OF THREE: DUPIN, HOLMES, PEIRCE, (Indiana U. Press, 1983, 1988)

James Franklin, THE SCIENCE OF CONJECTURE: EVIDENCE AND PROBABILITY before PASCAL (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Reid Hastie, Steven Penrod & Nancy Pennington, INSIDE THE JURY (1983)

R. Haydock, D. Herr & J. Stempel, FUNDAMENTALS OF PRETRIAL LITIGATION (West Group, 5th ed., 2001 [or any other edition])

John Josephson & Susan Josephson, ABDUCTIVE INFERENCE: COMPUTATION, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge U. Press, 1994)

Joseph Kadane & David Schum, A PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SACCO AND VANZETTI EVIDENCE (Wiley, 1996)

Arthur Koestler, THE ACT OF CREATION (Reissue edition, 1990)

Thomas Mauet, PRETRIAL (Aspen Law & Business, 3d ed., 1995 [or any other edition])

Peter Ohrstrom & Per F. V. Hasle, TEMPORAL LOGIC: FROM ANCIENT IDEAS TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995)

Karl Popper, CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS: THE GROWTH OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE (Basic Books, 1962)

Bernard Robertson & G.A. Vignaux, INTERPRETING EVIDENCE (Wiley, 1995)

D. Schum, EVIDENCE AND INFERENCE FOR THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST (2 vols., University Press of America, 1987)

D. Schum, EVIDENTIAL FOUNDATIONS OF PROBABILISTIC REASONING (Wylie, 1994)

Glenn Shafer, THE ART OF CAUSAL CONJECTURE (MIT Press, 1996)

Peter Tillers, guest editor, Special Issue on Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings, 6 Law, Probability and Risk Nos. 1-4 (2007)

Douglas N. Walton, LEGAL ARGUMENTATION AND EVIDENCE (2002)

Charles L. Yeschke, THE ART OF INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEWING: A HUMAN APPROACH TO TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997 or 2003)

The following online material is about complex inference, or complex evidential argument:

Henry Prakken, Chris Reed & Douglas Walton, Argumentation Schemes and Generalisations in Reasoning about Evidence