Law and ScienceHelen Reece Oxford University Press, 1998 - 307 pages 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. |
Contents
Feldman | 35 |
The Role of Scientific Evidence in the Assessment | 55 |
The Environment Science and | 109 |
a Study of the Precautionary Principle | 129 |
A New Criterion for the Admissibility of Scientific Evidence? | 153 |
Expert Evidence in Canadian Criminal Proceedings | 175 |
The Risks and Dangers of Experts in Court | 221 |
Laws Truth Lay Truth and Medical Science | 243 |
What Lawyers Need to Know about Science | 289 |
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