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001 2013048953
003 DLC
005 20140919084237.0
008 131209s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013048953
020 $a9781107039964 (hardback)
020 $a1107039967 (hardback)
020 $a9781107698345 (paperback)
020 $a1107698340 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aK2261$b.H32 2014
082 00 $a347/.06$223
084 $aLAW052000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHaack, Susan,$eauthor.
245 10 $aEvidence matters :$bscience, proof, and truth in the law /$cSusan Haack, University of Miami.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axxvi, 416 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aLaw in context
520 $a"Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which cases sometimes turn? How are they to distinguish reliable scientific testimony from unreliable hokum? The dozen interdisciplinary essays collected here explore a whole nexus of such questions about science, proof, and truth in the law. With her characteristic clarity and verve, in these essays Haack brings her original and distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues. She includes detailed analyses of a wide variety of cases and lucid summaries of relevant scientific work, of the many roles of the scientific peer-review system, and of relevant legal developments"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index.
505 8 $a1. Epistemology and the law of evidence: problems and projects -- 2. Epistemology legalized: or, truth, justice, and the American way -- 3. Legal probabilism: an epistemological dissent -- 4. Irreconcilable differences? The troubled marriage of science and law -- 5. Trial and error: two confusions in Daubert -- 6. Federal philosophy of science: a deconstruction-and a reconstruction -- 7. Peer review and publication: lessons for lawyers -- 8. What's wrong with litigation-driven science? -- 9. Proving causation: the weight of combined evidence -- 10. Correlation and causation: the 'Bradford Hill Criteria' in epidemiological, legal, and epistemological perspective -- 11. Risky business: statistical proof of specific causation -- 12. Nothing fancy: some simple truths about truth in the law.
650 0 $aEvidence (Law)
650 0 $aAdmissible evidence.
650 0 $aScience and law.
650 7 $aLAW / Jurisprudence.$2bisacsh