Evidence
David Bernstein is an expert on the Daubert case and the admissibility of expert testimony, and a past chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Evidence section. He coauthored The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence (Aspen Law and Business 2003), and co-edited Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT Press 1993). He began researching and writing about issues surrounding the admissibility of expert testimony while in law school, when he served as a research assistant for Peter W. Huber's influential Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom. He has published numerous academic-journal and popular-press articles on the subject.
Bernstein is known for advocating stricter standards for the admissibility of expert testimony, and the much more frequent use of nonpartisan experts.
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“Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.”
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