Science in the Courts

The Science in the Courts Institute demystifies scientific issues that arise in the courtroom. It offers interesting object lessons on the costs imposed when standards of scientific rationality are ignored, and provides a look at cutting-edge scientific scholarship in such fields as biochemistry. It also gives participants a solid review of such methodological and technical issues as cost-benefit analysis and the identification of scientific experts.

Fear of Risk	Frank Furedi	Kent Sociology
The Scientific Method	James S. Trefil	George Mason Physics
Science on Trial	Marcia Angell	Harvard Medical School
Frontiers in Biotechnology	James S. Trefil
Advances in Nutrition and Aging	Bruce N. Ames	UC Berkeley Biochemistry
The Evaluation of Risk	Gary E. Marchant	Arizona State University Law
Cost Benefit Analysis	Gary E. Marchant

Frank Furedi is the author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and the Culture of Fear. Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of Science on Trial and The Truth about Drug Companies. She is a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. James Trefil is a leader in the scientific literacy movement. Bruce Ames is the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science at UC Berkeley, and one of the most frequently cited scientists. Gary Marchant is the director of Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology.