商品簡介
Caudill (law, Villanova U.) and LaRue (law, Washington and Lee U.) note that 75 percent of civil cases involve one or more expert scientific witnesses, and that "reliability" of expert testimony is up to the discretion of the gatekeeping judge. This combination of conditions forces judges and the lawyers arguing before them to debate the question: What is good science? Further, what is good science in the courtroom? The believe current practitioners and students need to understand science as a pragmatic exercise that includes social, rhetorical and institutional aspects that may outweigh its own rigor and methodology. They describe legal practitioners, particularly judges, who are too strict or too gullible, unwarranted idealization of science by legal scholars, the means and practice of science as a pragmatic activity, and science studies suitable to the study and practice of law. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
David S. Caudill is a professor of law at Washington & Lee University School of Law. He is the author of Property: Cases, Documents, and Lawyering Strategies (2004). Lewis H. LaRue is also a professor of law at Washington & Lee University School of Law. He is the author of Constitutional Law as Fiction: Narrative in the Rhetoric of Authority (1995).