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Title: Expert Witnessing: Explaining and Understanding Science

Price: $94.95

ISBN: 0849311977

Publication Date: 1998

# of Pages: 256

  • An overview of the nature of the problem and the setting in which interaction occurs
  • Why litigators prefer jury trials to bench trials when scientific issues are involved
  • An explanation of the fundamental difference between science and law
  • The cultural barriers between scientists and physicians that can adversely affect their cooperation in the proof of causation in toxic injury cases
  • The ongoing transition in the law of evidence
  • How use of experts in the civil law countries of continental Europe contrasts with the U.S. common law system
  • How scientists approach scientific problems, interdisciplinary communications, and the phenomenon of "junk science"
  • The nuts and bolts scientists need to communicate effectively at trial
  • How complex scientific information must be presented to be useful to the trier of fact
  • How a forensic expert analyzes and presents billion-dollar toxic releases for presentation to jurors
  • Hidden traps in dealing with epidemiological data
  • How to expose logical errors in medical diagnosis
  • The translation of scientific issues into common sense language
  • A description of the communication problems between scientists and lawyers that occur during patent litigation

    Communication problems between science and the courts are widely deplored and sometimes exploited by a variety of groups. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice tightened the law of evidence to control the flow of information, but amazingly little has been written to analyze the nature of the problem and reduce the barriers. Expert Witnesses: Explaining and Understanding Science results from the first-hand experience of the contributors-who include scientists, expert witnesses, litigators, and a judge-that the cultural and interdisciplinary communications barriers between science and the law can be greatly reduced to everybody's advantage if the parties understand and respect each other's needs and positions.
   
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