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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda." National Research Council. 2002. The Age of Expert Testimony: Science in the Courtroom: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10272.
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Appendix B: Agenda

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE WORKSHOP

Science, Technology, and Law Program

The National Academies

2101 Constitution Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.

September 7, 2000

8:00

Continental Breakfast

8:30

Welcome and Introductions:

Richard A. Merrill, Daniel Caplin Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School, and Co-Chair, Science, Technology, and Law Program

8:40

How Does Scientific Expert Testimony Compare with Scientific Practice?

 

Moderator:

Richard A. Levie, Principal, ADR Associates, L.L.C., Senior Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia (ret.)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda." National Research Council. 2002. The Age of Expert Testimony: Science in the Courtroom: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10272.
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Panelists:

 

 

Epidemiology:

David Ozonoff, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University

Jon Samet, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University

 

Toxicology:

Bernard D. Goldstein, Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey—The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

 

Differential Diagnosis:

M. Gregg Bloche, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law School and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

10:15

Break

10:30

Emerging Issues

 

 

Moderator:

Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor, and Head, Laboratory of Populations, The Rockefeller University and Columbia University

 

Issue One: To What Extent Are Evidentiary Rulings Becoming Substantive Standards of Law?

 

Presenter:

Margaret A. Berger, Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor of Law, Brooklyn School of Law

 

Commentators:

Leon Gordis, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University

Michael H. Gottesman, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda." National Research Council. 2002. The Age of Expert Testimony: Science in the Courtroom: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10272.
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Issue Two: The Ethics of Expert Evidence

 

Presenter:

Sheila Jasanoff, Professor of Science and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

 

Commentator:

Donald N. Bersoff, Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Psychology Program, Villanova School of Law

 

Issue Three: Using Social Science to Affect Policy: Eyewitness Research as a Successful Example

 

Presenter:

Gary L. Wells, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University

 

Commentator:

Shari Diamond, Professor of Law and Psychology, Northwestern University Law School

12:45

Lunch

Gina Kolata, Science Desk, The New York Times

2:00

Research Sponsored by Parties to Challenge, Support, or Influence Judicial or Regulatory Proceedings. How Does Sponsorship Affect Research and the Way It Is Perceived?

 

Moderator:

Donald Kennedy, Bing Professor of Environmental Sciences and President Emeritus, Stanford University, and Editor-in-Chief, Science, Co-Chair, Science, Technology, and Law Program

 

Panelists:

Marsha Rabiteau, Counsel, The Dow Chemical Company

Channing R. Robertson, Ruth G. and William K. Bowes Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

William B. Schultz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda." National Research Council. 2002. The Age of Expert Testimony: Science in the Courtroom: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10272.
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4:00

Break

 

4:15

Different Perspectives in Search of Mutual Understanding

 

Moderator:

Paul D. Carrington, Harry R. Chadwick Senior Professor of Law, Duke University Law School

 

Presentator:

Michael H. Hoeflich, Dean and John H. and John M. Kane Professor of Law, University of Kansas Law School

 

Commentators:

David A. Freedman, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Patrick A. Malone, Stein, Mitchell & Mezines

5:15

Closing Remarks

The Honorable Andre M. Davis, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

5:30

Reception

 

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda." National Research Council. 2002. The Age of Expert Testimony: Science in the Courtroom: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10272.
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