Abstract

In this book, Erica Beecher-Monas develops an interdisciplinary approach, combining legal and cross-disciplinary scientific considerations, to provide a heuristic framework within which to assess whether expert evidence meets the requirements of intellectual due process. It provides a valuable introduction for lawyers to the methodological issues that need to be addressed in understanding whether a piece of proposed expert evidence can be classified as 'scientific.' This book marks a welcome re-assertion, on firm epistemological grounds, that the use of expert evidence represents part of the rationalist endeavor of accurate fact determination, in support of the moral authority of law.

Recommended Citation

Dwyer, Deirdre (2008) "Book Review of Erica Beecher-Monas, Evaluating Scientific Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Intellectual Due Process," International Commentary on Evidence: Vol. 6 : Iss. 1, Article 1.
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/ice/vol6/iss1/art1