David Faigman's Constitutional Fictions is the first book-length examination of the role of fact-finding in constitutional cases.

The results are often less than enlightened. In Legal Alchemy, David Faigman explores the ways the American legal system incorporates scientific knowledge into its decision making.

The Supreme Court works by precedent, embedding the science of an earlier time into our laws.

The text also includes the Evidence Map, a study aid presented in the format of a flowchart that helps law students understand the operations within particular rules and the relationships between different rules.

This edition of the pamphlet was prepared by Professor Daniel J. Capra, the Reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules.

This essay argues that the first criterion, that the offender lack volitional control, effectively invites fact finders to consider moral blameworthiness for conduct that has yet to occur.

The growing role of neuroscientists in court means that neuroscientists should be aware of important differences between the scientific and legal fields, and, especially, how scientific facts can be easily misunderstood by non-scientists ...