Ethics of Expert Evidence

Emma Cunliffe is an Associate Professor in the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of Law, University of New South Wales.

• The Ethics of Expert EvidenceEdited by Emma CunliffeContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Conceptualizing the ethics of expert evidence1. Joseph Sanders, Science, Law and the Expert Witness, Law & Contemporary Problems 72, 2009, 63 – 90.2. Philip J. Candilis, The Revolution in Forensic Ethics: Narrative, Compassion and a Robust Professionalism, Psychiatric Clinics of North America 32, 2009, 423 – 435.3. Ezra E. H. Griffith, Personal Narrative and an African-American Perspective on Medical Ethics, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law 33, 2005, 371 – 3814. Robert F. Taylor, A Comparative Study of Expert Testimony in France and the United States: Philosophical Underpinnings, History, Practice, and Procedure, Texas International Law Journal 31, 3, 1996, 181–213Part II: Intellectual basis and role comprehension5. Gary Edmond & Mehera San Roque, The Cool Crucible: Forensic Science and the Frailty of the Criminal Trial, Current Issues in Criminal Justice 24, 1, 2012, 51 – 68. 6. Simon A. Cole, Where the Rubber meets the Road: Thinking about Expert Evidence as Expert Testimony, Villanova Law Review 52, 2007, 803 – 842. 7. Emma Cunliffe, Independence, Reliability & Expert Testimony in Criminal Trials, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences 45, 2013, 284 – 295. 8. Sheila Jasanoff, Research Subpoenas and the Sociology of Knowledge, Law & Contemporary Problems 59, 1996, 95 – 118. 9. Deirdre Dwyer, (Why) Are Civil and Criminal Expert Evidence Different?, Tulsa Law Review 43, 2007, 381 – 396. 10. Gary Edmond, Judging the Scientific and Medical Literature: Some Legal Implications of Changes to Biomedical Research and Publication, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 28, 2008, 523 – 61. 11. William C. Thompson, Beyond Bad Apples: Analyzing the Role of Forensic Science in Wrongful Convictions, Southwestern Law Review 37, 2008, 1027 – 1050. 12. Itiel E. Dror, Practical Solutions to Cognitive and Human Factor Challenges in Forensic Science, Forensic Science Policy & Management: An International Journal 4, 2013, 105 – 113. 13. Mariana Valverde, Social Facticity and the Law: A Social Expert’s Eyewitness Account of Law, Social & Legal Studies 5, 1996, 201 – 217. Part III: Case studies and debatesA: Humanities and social sciences14. Richard J. Evans, History, Memory and the Law: The Historian as Expert Witness, History & Theory 41, 2002, 326 – 345. 15. Arthur J. Ray, Native History on Trial: Confessions of an Expert Witness, Canadian Historical Review 84, 2003, 255 – 73. 16. Gregory Mitchell, John Monahan & Laurens Walker, The ASA’s Missed Opportunity to Promote Sound Science in Court, Sociological Methods & Research 40, 2011, 605 – 620. 17. Laura Beth Nielson, Amy Myrick & Jill Weinberg, Siding with Science: In Defense of ASA’s Dukes v Walmart Amicus Brief, Sociological Methods & Research 40, 2011, 646 – 667. B: Medicine18. Stephen T. Goudge, ‘Effective Communication with the Criminal Justice System, Final Report of the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology (Toronto: Queen’s Printer, 2008), pp. 406 – 436. 19. C. C. Meltzer et al, Guidelines for the Ethical Use of Neuroimages in Medical Testimony: Report of a Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference, American Journal of Neuroradiology 35, 2014, 632 – 637. 20. Robert K. Jackler & Hussein A. Samji, The Price Paid: Manipulation of Otolaryngologists by the Tobacco Industry to Obfuscate the Emerging Truth that Smoking Causes Cancer, Laryngoscope 122, 2012, 75 – 87. 21. Amar Jesani, Supreme Court Judgment on Medical Interrogation: On the Just Use of Science and the Ethics of Doctor Participation in Criminal Investigation, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 7, 3, 2010, 139 – 142. C: Psychology22. Timothy M. Tippins & Jeffrey P. Wittmann, Empirical and Ethical Problems with Custody Recommendations: A Call for Clinical Humility and Judicial Vigilance Family Court Review 43, 2005, 193 – 222. 23. Isabel Grant, The "Syndromization" of Women’s Experience, University of British Columbia Law Review 25, 1991, 51 – 59. 24. Michael L. Perlin, Astrid Birgden & Kris Gledhill, The Witness Who Saw/ He Left No Doubt: A Comparative Consideration of Expert Testimony in Mental Disability Law Cases in Common and Civil Law Systems, Journal of Investigative Psychology & Offender Profiling 6, 2009, 59 – 88. Index