ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 8

Are Forensic Experts an Endangered Species?
Slap, AJ
Chair, Environmental Law Group, Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, PA

Fessenden, M
Litigation associate, Mesirov, Gellman, Jaffe, Cramer & Jamieson, PA

(Received 8 March 1990; accepted 11 July 1990)

Abstract

There are those in the legal profession, including some judges, who believe that the only good expert is a dead one. Such people believe that only established truth through science should be permitted into the courtroom; anything less is rank speculation and should be excluded on summary judgment. In such a world, there would be scant need for causation experts or juries, despite the guarantee of the Seventh Amendment.

Keywords:
jurisprudence, witnesses, testimony, expert witnesses

Paper ID: JFS13080J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS13080J
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