Expert Testimony in the Social Sciences
A Historical Overview of Contemporary Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7214920 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Rosen (0009-0009-5416-6923, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-142 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law and History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0738-2480 • E-ISSN: 1939-9022 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0738248019000579 |
| OpenAlex | W2998784328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
In this brief reconsideration of the roles experts may play in legal proceedings - and concentrating on the role of social scientists in particular - it may, therefore, be useful to revisit some very familiar issues and to address some seemingly peripheral matters that are nevertheless quite central to the way we think about the involvement of experts in legal cases. For purposes of introducing some of these issues it may be helpful to focus on three interrelated concerns: the ascertaining of expert qualifications, the role of evidentiary procedure, and the extra-judicial use of social information
Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Political science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Engineering · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Narratives of human evolution
Historians as Expert Judicial Witnesses in Tobacco Litigation
The Cultural Defense
Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts
Islam and the Rule of Justice
Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens
Serving Clio and Client
Expert History and the Tribulations of Trials
Expert Bias and Partisanship
Social Facticity and the Law
Anthropology on trial
The impact of Daubert and its progeny on the admissibility of behavioral and social science evidence
A Wuffle's Advice to the Expert Witness in Court
The Unification of Laws in East Africa
History, Memory, and the Law
The Restatement of African Customary Law
The Predicament of Culture
The Social Scientist as an Expert Witness in Civil Rights Litigation
Cultural evidence in courts of law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |