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Volume 72	Winter 2009	Number 1
Conventions in Science and Law *David Michaels and Neil Vidmar* Special Editors
Introduction PDF		David Michaels and Neil Vidmar	i
Irreconcilable Differences? The Troubled Marriage of Science and Law PDF		Susan Haack	1
Essay: Conventions in Science and in the Courts: Images and Realities PDF		Jerome R. Ravetz	25
The Arts of Persuasion in Science and Law: Conflicting Norms in the Courtroom PDF		Herbert M. Kritzer	41
Science, Law and the Expert Witness PDF		Joseph Sanders	63
How Does Science Come to Speak in the Courts? Citations Intertexts, Expert Witnesses, Consequential Facts, and Reasoning PDF		Charles Bazerman	91
How Much Evidence is Enough? Conventions of Causal Inference PDF		David Kriebel	121
Trials and Tribulations: What Happens When Historians Enter the Courtroom PDF		David Rosner	137
Merton and the Hot Tub: Scientific Conventions and Expert Evidence in Australian Civil Procedure PDF		Gary Edmond	159
In Defense of "Footnote Four": A Historical Analysis of the New Deal's Effect on Land Regulation in the U.S. Supreme Court PDF		Christopher S. Dodrill	191

Race and Socio-Economic Class: Unraveling an Increasingly Complex Tapestry

Law & Contemporary Problems and the Mills Conversation Series will be sponsoring a conference on race and socio-economic class at Duke Law School on Friday, January 23, 2009. This event will go from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in room 3037.
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