Abstract
One of the most important issues for science in the courtroom is the determination of causality. Like science in the courtroom, science in the regulatory arena can also bring a clash of cultures, misunderstanding, and controversy--especially when decisions must be made with some urgency with interested parties watching closely. Here, Kriebel discusses some conventions in the conduct of science and in the ways that scientific information is communicated to nonscientists that can make it difficult for judges, lawyers, regulators, and politicians to do their jobs making decisions about complex environmental and health issues.
Citation
David Kriebel,
How Much Evidence is Enough? Conventions of Causal Inference,
72 Law and Contemporary Problems
121-136
(Winter 2009)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol72/iss1/7