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Law and Science
Current Legal Issues 1998: Volume 1
Edited by Helen Reece
Editor-in-Chief: Michael Freeman
332 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-826794-2
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Hardback
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30 July 1998
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- The first volume of an exciting new series whose sister publication, Current Legal Problems, is very well known and highly regarded
- A major and novel contribution to legal scholarship
- Contributors to the volume form a line up of outstanding quality
- Interdisciplinary in scope and international in breadth
This is the first volume of an exciting new series, Current Legal Issues, which will be published each spring as a sister volume to Current Legal Problems. The basis for each interdisciplinary volume will be a two-day colloquium held each year by the Faculty of Laws at University College London. This first volume explores the interrelationship of law and science. Future volumes will examine themes such as law and literature, law and medicine, law and religion, etc.
This book, the first volume of Current Legal Issues, explores the relationship of law and science, with a particular focus on the role of science as evidence. Scientific
evidence impinges on a wide range of legal issues, including, for example, risk assessment in mental health and child abuse, criminal investigations, chemical and medical products, mass tort cases and the attribution of paternity. Science promises to reduce (or even eliminate) uncertainty; how should lawyers respond to such ambitious claims? As the civil justice process undergoes a major overhaul, this diverse and stimulating collection of essays provides a timely and thought-provoking reassessment of the relationship between law and science in general and the uses and value of scientific evidence in particular.
From the Editors' Introduction
This volume addresses the intersection between law and science, two monolithic institutions
which generally compete for, but sometimes coincide in presenting, an authoritative analysis of the world. The contributors to this volume take different views as to who is the victor in this contest Science deals in objective reality; therefore it is for scientists to reveal as much as they can about reality, and for the law to determine what should be made of the discoveries. Perhaps this division of labour is too simplistic, but if it is taken as a model, it is apparent that law and science are bound together and that mutual understanding is essential. If this volume contributes to that understanding then it will have performed an invaluable service.Readership: This book will be of general interest to all
law academics, practitioners and students. It will be of especial interest to scholars concerned with the relationship of law and science, particularly the use and value of scientific evidence.
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Edited by Helen Reece, Lecturer in Laws, University College, London Editor-in-Chief: Michael Freeman
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J.E. Penner, Lecturer in Law, LSE: Cognitive science, legal theory and the possibility of an observation/theory distinction in morality and law
Heidi Li Feldman, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University: Science, reason, and tort law: looking for the reasonable person
Richard Goldberg, Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham: The role of scientific evidence in the assessment of causation in medicinal product liability litigation: a probabilistic and economic analysis
Helen Reece, Lecturer in Laws, UCL: Pedro Juan Cubillo v Commonwealth of Australia (1995): right result, wrong method
Sue Elworthy, Research Associate, Robert Gordon University and Jane Holder, Lecturer in Laws and Co-Director of the Centre for the Law of the European Union, UCL: The BSE crisis: a study of the precautionary principle and the politics of science in law
Fiona E Raitt, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies of the Diploma in Legal Practice, University of Dundee: A new criterion for the admissibility of scientific evidence? The metamorphosis of helpfulness
Paul Roberts, Lecturer in Law, University of Nottingham: Reflections on expert evidence in Canadian criminal proceedings: more lessons from North America
Felicity Kaganas, Lecturer in Law, Brunel University and Michael King, Professor of Law, Brunel University: The risks and dangers of experts in court
Tony Ward, Senior Lecturer, De Montford University: Laws truth, lay truth and medical science: three case studies
Gerald Ginsburg, Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno and James T Richardson, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno: Brainwashing evidence in the light of Daubert: science and unpopular religions
Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, UCL: What lawyers need to know about science
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