Shameless Self-Promotion: Law & Science at DRI

With Robert Scott, I will be presenting at this October’s Annual Meeting of the Defense Research Institute.  The ludicrously large PDF of the program is here. Our subject:

The Intersection of Law and Science—The Unintended Consequences of Judicial Standards for Expert Evidence

Presented by the Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee

This presentation will address several unexpected results of the Daubert decision and other standards for scientific evidence. It will include a discussion of scientific studies or literature created for litigation, recent attacks in “scientific” literature on industry and
industry-funded studies and self-proclaimed “public interest” groups with ties to litigation. The presentation will also include a discussion of discovery regarding this type of litigation-related science as well as the potential and propriety of bringing discovery into the peer review process. Finally, the use of historians and historical context evidence in mass tort litigation will be explored.