Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law
"In this history, legal scholar David L. Faigman wrestles with moral and political conundrums, revealing the tension between the conservative nature of the law and the swift evolution of scientific knowledge. Because constitutional law works by precedent, the Supreme Court embeds the science of earlier times into our laws today - sometimes in the service of facts and truth, sometimes in the service of judicial expediency."
Print Book, English, 2004
Times Books/Henry Holt, New York, 2004
xiii, 417 pages ; 25 cm
9780805072747, 9780805078459, 0805072748, 0805078452
54504037
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