Law and Science - Current Legal Issues 1998: Volume 1

Informationen zum Autor Michael D.A. Freeman (Editor-in-Chief, Current Legal Publications, Editor, Current Legal Problems) is Professor of English Law, UCLA.D.E Lewis (Associate Editor, Current Legal Publications, General Editor, Current Legal Issues) is Senior Lecturer in Laws, UCLHelen Reece (Editor, Current Legal Issues Volume 1: Law & Science) is Lecturer in Laws, UCL Klappentext 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. This book is the first volume in the series and explores the relationship of law and science, with a particular focus on the role of science as evidence. Zusammenfassung This is the first volume of a series, Current Legal Issues. It 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, risk assessment in mental health and child abuse, criminal investigations and chemical and medical products. Inhaltsverzeichnis Cognitive science, legal theory and the possibility of an observation/theory distinction in morality and law Science, reason, and tort law: looking for the reasonable person The role of scientific evidence in the assessment of causation in medicinal product liability litigation: a probabilistic and economic analysis Pedro Juan Cubillo v Commonwealth of Australia (1995): right result, wrong method The BSE crisis: a study of the precautionary principle and the politics of science in law A new criterion for the admissibility of scientific evidence? The metamorphosis of helpfulness Reflections on expert evidence in Canadian criminal proceedings: more lessons from North America The risks and dangers of experts in court Laws truth, lay truth and medical science: three case studies Brainwashing evidence in the light of Daubert: science and unpopular religions What lawyers need to know about science ...

Product details

• Authors: Helen Reece
• Assisted by: Michael D. A. Freeman (Editor), Andrew D. E. Lewis (Editor), Helen Reece (Editor), Helen (Lecturer in Laws Reece (Editor), Hlen Reece (Editor), Reece Helen (Editor), Michael Freeman (Editor of the series), Freeman Michael (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1998
• EAN: 9780198267942
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826794-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Current Legal Issues; Current Legal Issues
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; England, Wales, LAW / Forensic Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Courts, LAW / Civil Procedure, LAW / International, LAW / Evidence, Forensic Science, Civil procedure: law of evidence, International law: courts and procedures, International courts & procedures