Science in the Courts
The Science in the Courts Institute demystifies scientific issues that arise in the courtroom. It offers interesting object lessons on the costs imposed when standards of scientific rationality are ignored and provides a look at cutting-edge scientific scholarship in such fields as biochemistry and evolutionary biology. It also gives participants a solid review of such methodological and technical issues as cost-benefit analysis and the identification of scientific experts.
- Science on Trial, Marcia Angell, Harvard Medical School
- How Scientists Judge Science, James S. Trefil, George Mason University, Physics
- Frontiers of Science: Biotech, James S. Trefil
- Frontiers of Science: Health Science, Bruce Ames, UC Berkeley, Biochemistry
- Cost-benefit Analysis, Gary E. Marchant, Arizona State University School of Law
- Risk and Uncertainty, John S. Evans, Harvard University, Environmental Health
- Evolutionary Biology, Lionel Tiger, Rutgers University, Anthropology
Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of Science on Trial. She is a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. James Trefil, Robinson Professor at George Mason University, is a leader in the scientific literacy movement. Bruce Ames is the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science at UC Berkeley and is one of the most frequently cited scientists. Gary Marchant serves as the director of Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology. John Evans is a leading scholar on Risk Analysis. He is the director of a program that is studying the public health impacts of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Lionel Tiger is a leading scholar of anthropology and is the author of Men in Groups.