The articles in this volume grew out of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on Facts and Evidence: ADialogue Between Law and History held at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (STL) in Shenzhen, China, between September and November 2019. From September 14 to 15, eight Chinesespeaking scholars held aworkshop at STL to exchange views on their draft papers. On November 16 and 17, these scholars joined with more than a dozen legal scholars and historians from various universities and research institutions in Europe and the USA to expand the discussion into an international dialogue between historians and legal scholars. The Second International Conference on Facts and Evidence: A Dialogue Between Law and History was the second installment of a cross-disciplinary research project on facts and evidence under the auspices of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization (CICJC), a multi-institutional research platform with its primary anchor at the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science (ELFS) of China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). The inaugural conference of this project, the First International Conference on Facts and Evidence: A Dialogue Between Law and Philosophy, was co-hosted by CICJC and East China Normal University and successfully convened in Shanghai, China, in May 2016.