Toxic Torts: Science, Law, and the Possibility of Justice

ISBN-13: 9781316606384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 429 str.

Carl F. Cranor

Opis

Toxic Torts, 2nd edition shows how the American justice system underserves the public in its treatment of scientific evidence.

Recenzje

Review of previous edition: 'Carl F. Cranor's exceptionally lucid analysis of science in regulation and litigation reveals brilliantly why circumstantial evidence currently can convict a dangerous person but not a toxic chemical.' Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts University, Massachusetts

Spis treści

Preface; 1. The veil of science over tort law policy; 2. Legal background; 3. Institutional concerns about the Supreme Court's trilogy; 4. Evidence of toxicity; 5. Scientific reasoning and some applications; 6. Excellent evidence makes bad law: pragmatic barriers to the discovery of harm and fair admissibility; 7. Science and law in conflict; 8. Milward v. Acuity Specialty Products: toward clarifying legal and scientific issues; 9. Enhancing the possibility of justice under Daubert; 10. What has Daubert wrought?; Bibliography; Index.