The history of scientific expert testimony in the English courtroom

Tal Golan

doi:10.1017/s026988970000329x

The history of scientific expert testimony in the English courtroom

Tal Golan

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This paper provides a historical perspective to one of the liveliest debates in common law courts today - the one over scientific expert testimony. Arguing against the current tendency to present the problem of expert testimony as a late twentieth-century predicament which threatens to spin out of control, the paper shows that the phenomena of conflicting scientific testimonies have been perennial for at least two centuries, and intensely debated in both the legal and the scientific communities for at least 150 years.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-32
Number of pages	26
Journal	Science in Context
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s026988970000329x
State	Published - 1 Jan 1999
Externally published	Yes

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