An Empirical Analysis of Credibility Assessment in German Asylum Cases
This study analyzes empirically how 236 German court decisions assess the credibility of asylum seekers’ accounts of their persecution. In their reasoning, the courts rely on generally accepted content-based credibility criteria, including consistency, level of detail, and timeliness of the claim. B...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2023-03-01
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Series: | German Law Journal |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2071832223000159/type/journal_article |