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Beyond The Polemic Against Junk Science: Navigating The Oceans That Divide Science And Law With Justice Breyer At The Helm, Joelle A. Moreno
Beyond The Polemic Against Junk Science: Navigating The Oceans That Divide Science And Law With Justice Breyer At The Helm, Joelle A. Moreno
Joelle A. Moreno
The disjuncture between science and law became a significant practical, rather than theoretical, problem in 1993 when the Supreme Court decided Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Daubert was a radical break from a tradition of judicial deference to scientific norms and conventions on questions of the admissibility of scientific evidence. The Court called upon the federal judiciary to slam the gate on all scientific evidence that is not "'scientific knowledge' . . . derived from the scientific method."' Since 1993, the Supreme Court has issued three opinions clarifying Daubert, and countless judges and legal commentators have wrestled with the …