Add to ORKGThis Note urges restoration of the proper balance of power between judges and juries regarding expert evidence. Our justice system has steadily moved away from letting juries decide important questions of fact and toward putting the decisionmaking power into the hands of judges. The recent developments in evidence law, requiring judges to act as the “gatekeepers” of expert evidence, present significant obstacles for plaintiffs attempting to get cases to a jury. This newer standard in expert evidence is a violation of the foundational precept in American jurisprudence that the people should be the sovereign, not the judge
When evidence with a scientific basis is offered, two fundamental questions arise. First, should it ...
Defendants regularly argue that a Review Board\u27s decision must be overturned because it is not su...
This Article advocates two changes to the law. First, parties should be allowed (but not required) t...
This Note urges restoration of the proper balance of power between judges and juries regarding exper...
“Experts” appear in the modern American courtroom on the jury as well as in the witness box, posing ...
Debate concerning the limits of judicial power over expert witnesses remains active and in its early...
The dispute over whether litigants may use experts to run unexamined hearsay into the trial record i...
The trial of Robert E. Chambers, Jr., for the murder of eighteen year old Jennifer Levin in Central ...
In this Article I contend that the use of expert evidence is not always the best mechanism for makin...
In the world of modern trials, expert witnesses are the coin of the realm. Lawyers know that most of...
With regard to criminal cases, the focus of this Article, judges face significant challenges in ruli...
In this article, I argue that the new focus on the risks of spurious expertise compels attention t...
The opinion rule of exclusion and the use of expert testimony, like much of the law of evidence, dev...
Read court decisions and commentaries from 100, or evenfive years ago, and you will find that expert...
for admissibility at trial of expert testimony in general and scientific evidence in particular have...
When evidence with a scientific basis is offered, two fundamental questions arise. First, should it ...
Defendants regularly argue that a Review Board\u27s decision must be overturned because it is not su...
This Article advocates two changes to the law. First, parties should be allowed (but not required) t...
This Note urges restoration of the proper balance of power between judges and juries regarding exper...
“Experts” appear in the modern American courtroom on the jury as well as in the witness box, posing ...
Debate concerning the limits of judicial power over expert witnesses remains active and in its early...
The dispute over whether litigants may use experts to run unexamined hearsay into the trial record i...
The trial of Robert E. Chambers, Jr., for the murder of eighteen year old Jennifer Levin in Central ...
In this Article I contend that the use of expert evidence is not always the best mechanism for makin...
In the world of modern trials, expert witnesses are the coin of the realm. Lawyers know that most of...
With regard to criminal cases, the focus of this Article, judges face significant challenges in ruli...
In this article, I argue that the new focus on the risks of spurious expertise compels attention t...
The opinion rule of exclusion and the use of expert testimony, like much of the law of evidence, dev...
Read court decisions and commentaries from 100, or evenfive years ago, and you will find that expert...
for admissibility at trial of expert testimony in general and scientific evidence in particular have...
When evidence with a scientific basis is offered, two fundamental questions arise. First, should it ...
Defendants regularly argue that a Review Board\u27s decision must be overturned because it is not su...
This Article advocates two changes to the law. First, parties should be allowed (but not required) t...