讲座主题

将科学研究融入法律判决制作的挑战：美国的经验

（The Challenges of Integrating Scientific Research into Legal Decision Making: The American Experience）

主讲人：David Faigman,（加利福尼亚黑斯廷斯mg4355cc线路检测院长、John F. Digardi特聘教授）

时间：2017年12月18日（周一）15:00－17:00  

地点：mg4355vip检测中心学院路校区如心楼306

主讲人简介

Chancellor & Dean David Faigman is the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and holds an appointment as Professor in theSchoolofMedicine(Dept. of Psychiatry) at theUniversityofCalifornia,San Francisco. He received both his M.A. (Psychology) and J.D. from theUniversityofVirginia. Professor Faigman clerked for the Honorable Thomas M. Reavley, Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

He is the author of over 50 articles and essays, and has published in a variety of outlets, including theChicago,Virginia,Pennsylvaniaand Northwestern law reviews, Science, Sociological Methods & Research and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. He is also the author of three books, Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts (Oxford, 2008), Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court’s 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law (Henry Holt & Co. 2004) and Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law (W.H. Freeman,1999). In addition, Professor Faigman is a co-author/co-editor of the five-volume treatise Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (with Cheng, Mnookin, Murphy Sanders & Slobogin). The treatise has been cited widely by courts, including several times by the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Faigman was a member of the National Academies of Science panel that investigated the scientific validity of polygraphs, is a member of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Network and served as a Senior Advisor to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s Report, “Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods.”