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title: "R. G. Bloemberg"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "R. G. (Ronnie) Bloemberg"
aliases: ["Ronnie Bloemberg","R. G. Bloemberg"]
first_seen: "2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["preuve légale / système de preuve légale","intime conviction","free evaluation of the evidence","beyond reasonable doubt (continental reception)","law of evidence 1750–1900"]
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
---


Dutch legal historian and practising lawyer (PhD, University of Groningen; lawyer at Houthoff, per the article's own byline) whose peer-reviewed study "The Development of the 'Modern' Criminal Law of Evidence in English Law and in France, Germany and the Netherlands: 1750–1900" (*American Journal of Legal History* 59(3):358–401, 2019, doi:10.1093/ajlh/njz014) is this vault's primary secondary source for how continental criminal procedure moved from the fixed *système de preuve légale* to the free evaluation of the evidence. The article extends Barbara Shapiro's "beyond reasonable doubt" epistemological thesis — originally about English law — onto French, German, and Dutch law, correcting her own presupposition that no continental parallel existed. Matters to this vault as the scholar whose account grounds the whole *preuve légale* → *intime conviction* spine, and who is careful to frame that abolition as multi-causal rather than driven by epistemology alone.

## References
- [[claim-french-revolution-abolished-preuve-legale-for-intime-conviction]] — the anchor claim his article grounds
- [[claim-bloemberg-frames-preuve-legale-abolition-as-jointly-epistemic-and-political]] — his multi-cause framing (contra a single epistemic or penological cause)
- [[claim-thouret-framed-intime-conviction-as-unforceable-inner-certainty]] — his quotation of Thouret in the revolutionaries' own voice
- Related hub: [[entity-john-h-langbein]] (whose penology thesis Bloemberg rebuts); watching: [[entity-conviction-raisonnee]]
- Open thread: [[question-verify-preuve-legale-abolition-intime-conviction-primary]]