The new Wigmore : a treatise on evidence : expert evidence / David H. Kaye, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The Pennsylvania State University College of Law (University Park) Regents Professor Emeritus, ASU School of Law and School of Life Sciences; David E. Bernstein, University Professor and Executive Director, Liberty & Law Center, George Mason University School of Law; Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law; Maggie Wittlin, Associate Professor, Fordham University School of Law; Jennifer L. Mnookin, Dean and David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law ; Richard D. Friedman, general editor, Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-783) and index.
Contents:
Purposes, history, and challenges of expert evidence -- Subject matter of and need for expert testimony -- Expert qualifications -- The bases for expert testimony -- Expert basis testimony and the confrontation clause -- Treatises and other learned writings -- The relevance-helpfulness and general-acceptance standards for scientific evidence -- The validity-reliability standard for scientific evidence -- The boundary problem : when is expert evidence scientific evidence? -- Limiting strict scrutiny by methodology, novelty, or type of case -- Erasing the boundary : heightened scrutiny for all expert testimony? -- Improving expert testimony : procedural and ethical issues.
Summary:
"A practical guide to the law of evidence, specifically as it relates to expert and scientific evidence. Audience: Any attorney practicing law in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
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