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Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law

Title
Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law / David L. Faigman.
Author
Faigman, David L. (David Laurence)
Publication
New York : Times Books, 2004.

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Description
xiii, 417 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • United States. Supreme Court
  • Judicial process > United States
  • Science and law > United States
  • Constitutional law > United States
  • Forensic sciences > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-398) and index.
Contents
The lesson of leeches -- If men were angels: a Constitution by and for "corruptible human hands" -- A covenant with death: Dred Scott and the biology of slavery -- The roots of modernity: Holmes, Brandeis, and the new legal science -- "Let us not become legal monks": legal realism and the realistic jurisprudence of the Supreme Court -- "Attainder of blood": race and eugenics in the 1940s -- Autocracy of caste: Brown v. Board of Education and the golden age of social science -- The right to be let alone: privacy and the problem of defining life and death -- Lifter or leveler?: equal protection in the land of rugged individualism -- In the Supreme Court we trust: science and supposition in the Religion Clauses -- Shouting fire: the moral and empirical consequences of free speech -- The house that the Court built: the future of science at the Suypreme Court.
Call Number
JFE 04-12745
ISBN
0805072748
LCCN
2003057049
OCLC
54504037
Author
Faigman, David L. (David Laurence)
Title
Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law / David L. Faigman.
Imprint
New York : Times Books, 2004.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-398) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 04-12745
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