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Toxic torts : science, law, and the possibility of justice / Carl F. Cranor, University of California, Riverside.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016Edition: Second editionDescription: xx, 409 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107151963 (hardback)
  • 9781316585368 (online)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.7303/8 23
LOC classification:
  • KF1299.H39 C73 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
The veil of science over tort law policy -- Legal background -- Institutional concerns about the Supreme Court's trilogy -- Evidence of toxicity -- Scientific reasoning and some applications -- Excellent evidence makes bad law : pragmatic barriers to the discovery of harm and fair admissibility decisions -- Science and law in conflict -- Milward v. Acuity Specialty Products : toward clarifying legal and scientific issues -- Enhancing the possibility of justice under Daubert -- What has Daubert wrought?
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E-Books - Cambridge, Bloomsbury, Oxford Handbooks & West Academic E-Books - Cambridge, Bloomsbury, Oxford Handbooks & West Academic National Law School 346.7303/8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan EBK-516

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-401) and index.

The veil of science over tort law policy -- Legal background -- Institutional concerns about the Supreme Court's trilogy -- Evidence of toxicity -- Scientific reasoning and some applications -- Excellent evidence makes bad law : pragmatic barriers to the discovery of harm and fair admissibility decisions -- Science and law in conflict -- Milward v. Acuity Specialty Products : toward clarifying legal and scientific issues -- Enhancing the possibility of justice under Daubert -- What has Daubert wrought?

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