Sessions Information

  • January 8, 2016
    4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
    Session Type: AALS Programs
    Session Capacity: 280
    Hotel: New York Hilton Midtown
    Room: Rendezvous Trianon
    Floor: Third Floor
    Lawyers and judges routinely confront complex issues of science and technology in the context of toxic torts, economic damages, medical malpractice, patent, and criminal cases. All of these involve the consideration of complex scientific and technical testimony in order to render a reasoned and principled judgment. Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., judges and attorneys have on occasion struggled to apply standards of science and engineering to proffered expert testimony.

    Join this distinguished panel of federal judges, each of whom has led the development of a National Academy of Sciences report involving scientific evidence used in court. Judge Jeremy Fogel, director of the Federal Judicial Center, will moderate a discussion with Judge Gladys Kessler, co-chair of the joint NAS-FJC Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence; Judge Harry Edwards, co-chair of the NAS report, Forensic Sciences in the US: A Path Forward; and Judge Jed Rakoff, co-chair of NAS report, Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification.
Session Speakers
US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia
Speaker

United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Moderator

United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Speaker

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Speaker

Session Fees
  • [5450] NEW: AALS and National Academies of Sciences, Committee on Science, Technology, and Law Joint Program: $0.00