David E. Bernstein

EXPERIENCE

George Mason University School of Law
Professor, as of 8/2003

Associate Professor, September 1998-2003 
Tenure awarded, August 2000
Assistant Professor, August 1995-August 1998
Courses: Constitutional Law II, Evidence, Expert and Scientific  Evidence, Products Liability, Torts II
Research: Expert Evidence, Products Liability, Tort and Civil Justice Issues, Legal History, Constitutional Law

Visiting Professor: Brooklyn, Fall 2006; University of Michigan, Fall 2005-Spring 2006; Georgetown, Spring 2003

 

Julius Silver Program in Law, Science and Technology,
Columbia Law School
Mellon Foundation Research Fellow, August 1994 - July 1995

 

Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC
Associate, October 1992 - July 1994
Specialized in litigation

 

Judge David A. Nelson, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Law Clerk, Fall 1991 - Summer 1992  

HONORS

Listed as one of fifty most-cited faculty who entered law teaching since 1992 

Law and Economics Center Prize, 2000, for "Best Book in Law and Economics"

Prize for "Best Article on Law, Science, and Technology" in Volume 41 of Jurimetrics                

John M. Olin Junior Faculty Fellow, 1998-99 (one of five awarded nationwide to scholars in all humanities fields)

Runner Up, AALS Scholarly Papers Competition, 1996-1997

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

AALS Evidence Section -- Chair, 2005, Chair-Elect 2004, Secretary 2003; Member: American Society for Legal History; American Law and Economics Association; District of Columbia Bar
Referee: Oxford University Press, Independent Review; Journal of American History; Law and History Review; Law and Social Inquiry; Law and Society Review, Supreme Court Economic Review, Accounting Horizons
Weblog: Volokh Conspiracy

BOOKS

Rehabilitating Lochner (in progress, contract with University of Chicago Press)

You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws (Cato Institute Oct. 2003; paperback Oct. 2004) (for reviews, click here)

The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence (Aspen Law & Business 2004) (and annual supplements) (with David Kaye and Jennifer Mnookin)

Only One Place of Redress:  African-Americans, Labor Regulations and the Court from Reconstruction to the New Deal (Duke University Press 2001) (for reviews, click on the link above)

Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT Press 1993) (co-editor and author or co-author of several chapters, with Kenneth Foster and Peter Huber)

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (links are to drafts; reprints of final version available on request)

Excluding unfit workers: Social control versus social justice in the age of economic reform, Law & Contemporary Problems (forthcoming) (with Thomas C. Leonard) (symposium)

Revisiting Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 2008 Ill. L. Rev. 1393 (symposium)

Getting to Causation in Toxic Tort Cases, 74 Brook. L. Rev. 51 (2008)

Expert Witnesses, Adversarial Bias, and the (Partial) Failure of the Daubert Revolution, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 451 (2008)

The Red Menace Revisited, 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1295 (2006) (review essay of Martin H. Redish, The Logic of Persecution)

Learning the Wrong Lessons from an American Tragedy, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 1961 (2006)

Judicial Power and Civil Rights Reconsidered, 114 Yale L.J. 593 (2004) (review essay of Michael Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights) (co-authored with Ilya Somin)

Bolling, Equal Protection, Due Process, and Lochnerphobia, 83 Geo. L.J. 1253 (2005) (symposium)

Lochner v. New York: A Centennial Retrospective, 83 Wash. U. L.Q. 1469 (2005)

Thoughts on Hodges v. United States: , 82 B.U. L. Rev. 811 (2005) (symposium)

Expressive Association After Dale, 21 Social Philosophy and Policy 195 (2004), also published in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr. & Jeffrey Paul, eds., Freedom of Speech (Cambridge U. Press 2004)

The Daubert Trilogy in the States, 44 Jurimetrics 351 (Spring 2004)

The Story of Lochner v. New York: Barrier to the Growth of Regulatory State, in Constitutional Law Stories (Michael Dorf, ed. 2004)

Lochner's Feminist Legacy, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 2140 (2003) (Review essay, Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years)

Lochner's Legacy's Legacy, 92 Tex L. Rev. 1 (2003)

Lochner Era Revisionism, Revised: Lochner and the Origins of Fundamental Rights Constitutionalism, 82 Geo. L.J. 1 (2003)

Defending Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws, 82 N.C. L. Rev. 100 (2003)

Keeping Junk Science Out of Asbestos Litigation, 31 Pepp. L. Rev. 11 (2003) (symposium)

Improving the Qualifications of Experts in Medical Malpractice Cases, 1 Law, Probability & Risk 9 (2002) (peer-reviewed, Oxford U. Press)

Frye, Frye, Again: The Past, Present, and Future of the General Acceptance Test, 41 Jurimetrics 385 (2001) (peer-reviewed) (winner of the Loevinger Prize for the best contribution to the field of Law, Science, and Technology in Volume 41 of Jurimetrics)

The Right of Expressive Association and Private Universities' Racial Preferences and Speech Codes, 9 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. L.J. 619 (2001) (symposium) 

Anti-Discrimination Laws and the First Amendment, 66 Mo. L. Rev. 83 (2001) (symposium)

Railroad Unions, Racism, and Labor Regulations, 5 Independent Rev. 237 (2000) (peer-reviewed)

Lochner vs. Plessy: The Berea College Case 25 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 93 (2000) (peer-reviewed)

Sex Discrimination Laws vs. Civil Liberties, 1999 U. Chi. Leg. Forum 133 (symposium)

Lochner, Parity, and the Chinese Laundry Cases, 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 211 (1999) (symposium)

The Breast Implant Fiasco, 87 Calif. L. Rev. 457 (1999)

Assessing the Social and Legal Consequences of Scientific Ambiguity, in Cutting Green Tape: Tort Law, Bureaucracy, and the Environment (Meiners & Stroup eds.) (Independent Institute 1999) (with Kenneth Foster and Peter Huber)

Two Asian Laundry Cases, 24 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 95 (1999) (peer-reviewed)

Philip Sober Restraining Philip Drunk: Buchanan v. Warley in Historical Perspective, 51 Vand. L.  Rev. 799 (1998) (symposium)

The Law and Economics of Post-Civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration by African-Americans, 74 Tex. L. Rev. 781 (1998)

The Abuse of Opening Statements and Closing Arguments in Civil Litigation, Court Rev.: Journal of the American Judges Association, Fall/Winter 1997, at 16 (also published as Manhattan Institute Civil Justice Memo No. 38, Aug. 1999)

Lessons from the American Experience, in Law and Markets (Robson & Lippert eds. 1997)

The Shameful, Wasteful History of New York's Prevailing Wage Law, 7 George Mason Civ. Rts. L.J. 1 (1997)

Leading Expert Evidence: A U.S. Perspective, 3 James Cook U. L. Rev. 170 (1996)

Loser-Pays: Where Next? 55 Md. L. Rev. 1161 (1996) (with Walter Olson) (symposium)

Procedural Tort Reform: Lessons from Other Nations, Regulation, No. 1, 1996, at 67

Junk Science in the United States and the Commonwealth, 21 Yale J. Int'l L. 123 (1996)

The Science of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 2 Psychology, Psychiatry & L. 75 (1995) (peer-reviewed)

The Davis-Bacon Act: Vestige of Jim Crow,13 Nat'l Black L.J. 276 (1994)

The Admissibility of Scientific Evidence After Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 15 Cardozo L. Rev. 2139 (1994) (symposium)

Licensing Laws: A Historical Example of the Use of Government Regulatory Power Against African-Americans, 30 San Diego L. Rev. 89 (1994) (symposium)

Roots of the "Underclass": The Decline of Laissez-faire Jurisprudence and the Rise of Racist Labor Legislation, 43 Am. U. L. Rev. 85 (1993)

Science and the Toxic Tort: New Guidelines for the Admissibility of Scientific Evidence, 261 Science 1509 (1993) (with Foster and Huber) (peer-reviewed)

Daubert Plaintiffs Won Battle, Lost War, Product Safety and Liability Rep. (BNA) Special Report: Daubert: What Next?, Summer/Fall 1993, at 16 (co-author) (symposium) (article also appeared in Shepard’s Scientific and Expert Evidence Quarterly)

Privatization in Great Britain: Motives, Methods, and Lessons, The World & I, Aug. 1991, at 519.

From Pesthouses to AIDS Clinics: Neighbors’ Irrational Fears of Treatment Centers for Contagious Diseases, 23 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (1990)
 

NOTES

The Supreme Court and "Civil Rights," 1886-1908, 100 Yale L.J. 725 (1990)

Out of the Fryeing Pan and into the Fire: The Expert Witness Problem in Toxic Tort Litigation," 10 Rev. Litig. 117 (1990)

A Contractual Solution to the Contraceptive Crisis, 8 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 146 (1989)

THINK TANK STUDIES

Disinterested in Daubert: State Courts Lag Behind in Opposing "Junk" Science, Washington Legal Foundation, Legal Opinion Letter (June 21, 2002) (pdf)

"Non-Scientific" Expert Witnesses: What Degree of Judicial Scrutiny Should They Face?,  Washington Legal Foundation Working Paper, Oct. 1998 (discusses Kumho Tire v. Carmichael)

Breast Implants: A Study in Phantom Risks, Manhattan Institute Research Memorandum No. 5 (April 1995)

Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom: Admissibility and Statistical Significance After Daubert, Washington Legal Foundation (1993) (co-author)

"It's Time to Reform New York's Prevailing Wage Law," Empire Foundation for Public Policy Research (September 1993)

The Davis Bacon-Act: Let's Put an End to Jim Crow, Cato Institute (January 1993)

Equal Protection for Economic Liberty: Is the Court Ready?, Cato Institute (October 1992)

Short Book Reviews

Review of Paul Moreno, Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History, Independent Rev., Dec. 2006 (by invitation)

Review of Ken Kersch, Constructing Civil Liberties, American Historical Rev., October 2005 (by invitation)

Review of Barbara Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920, American Journal of Legal History (2003) (by invitation)

Review of Richard C. Cortner, Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases, Ideas on Liberty (Oct. 2002) (by invitation)

Review of Michael J. Phillips, The Lochner Court Myth and Reality: Substantive Due Process from the 1890s to the 1930s, 21 Law and History Review 231 (2003)

Review of Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years (Eh.net--economic historians' listserv) (by invitation)

Review of Science on Trial, Litigation News, Spring 1997, at 4

Opinion Columns

What About Larry?, L. A. Times, Sept. 19, 2007

Quackspertise, Wall St. J., Sept. 30, 2006

Does Japan Have the Right to Exist as a Japanese State?, OpinionJournal.com, Aug. 24, 2006

Affirmative Blackmail, Wall St. J., Feb. 11, 2006

Davis-Bacon: Racist Pork, Human Events, Oct. 13, 2005

Hostile Work Environment at "Friends"?, Orange County Register, Aug. 13, 2004

Canadian Thought Police on the March, National Review Online, Dec. 2, 2003

The 'Human Stain' on America's Campuses, Cato Daily Commentary, Nov. 18, 2003.

Solomon Fight Reveals Free Association Duplicity, Harv. Law Record, Nov. 20, 2003

Isn't That Fascism? No, Because We Don't Call It Fascism, Tech Central Station, October 22, 2003.

Can Antidiscrimination Laws Corrupt Religious Schools? FoxNews.com, Oct. 16, 2003

Codes Out: The Department of Education Cuts the Tape on Speech Restrictions, National Review Online, Aug. 21, 2003

Firing Racist Police Officers is Justified, Cato Daily Commentary, July 20, 2003

Let Private Colleges Practice Affirmative Action, Cato Daily Commentary, June 23, 2003

Casey Martin Ruling is Par for the Course, Wall St. J., May 30, 2001

The ACLU Has Lost Its Way, Cin. Enquirer, May 16, 2000, at 8

Anti-Bias Laws vs. Civil Liberties, Wash. Times, Aug. 15, 1999

A Breast Bone of Contention, Los Angeles Daily J., Aug. 26, 1998 (op-ed on the Boxer breast implant research bill)

Good Science Wins a Victory in the Courtroom, Charlotte Observer, Jan. 24, 1997, at 13A (also published in Seattle Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Tulsa World, and Journal of Commerce)

Hauling Junk Science Out of the Courtroom, Wall St. J., July 14, 1993, at A16

Junk Science in the Courtroom, Wall St. J., March 24, 1993, at A15

Miscellaneous Short Writings

Rufus Peckham, in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Roger K. Newman ed. 2009)

The Unfinished Daubert Revolution, Engage, Feb. 2009, at 35.

Roberts v. Jaycees, in Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (John R. Vile et al. eds. 2008) 

Right to Petition, in Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (John R. Vile et al. eds. 2008)

Liberty of Contract, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus ed. 2008)

Meyer v. Nebraska, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus ed. 2008)

Allgeyer v. Louisiana, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus ed. 2008)

Liberty of Contract, in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman ed. 2006)

The Right to Petition, in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman ed. 2006)

Buchanan v. Warley, in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Charles Reagan Wilson ed. 2006)

Emigrant Agent Laws, in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Charles Reagan Wilson ed. 2006)

The Right to Petition, in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (2005)

Robert A. "Peg-Leg" Williams, in Melvin Urofsky, ed., One Hundred Americans Making Constitutional History (2004)

Junk Science in the Asbestos Litigation, Mealey's Asbestos Reporter (Sept. 2002)

Junk Expert Testimony: The Battle Rages On, 3 Engage: The Journal of the Federalist Society's Practice Groups 112 (2002)

Tort Reform Lessons, Aetna 2001 Annual Report (2002)

Comment on Kumho Tire, AALS Section on Evidence Newsletter, Spring 1999, at 3

Comment on Gary Edmond and David Mercer, "The Politics of Jury Competence," in Technology and Public Participation (Xlibris 1999).

Scientific Evidence After Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Health & Environment Digest, April 1994, at 3

Journalism/Magazine Articles

Why Johnny Can't Pray, Reason, Feb. 1992, at 56 (argues for school choice on religious freedom grounds)

Exclusionary Rule: Something's Not Kosher About Davis-Bacon, Reason, Aug./Sept.1991, at 32

Blocking the Lights, Reason, Nov. 1990, at 40 (about the regulation of AIDS hospices)

Regulating What Children Watch, Liberty, Jan. 1990, at 63

PRESENTATIONS

Board of Contract Appeals, Annual Judges Conference, Arlington, VA, Jan. 20, 2009: “Recent
Developments in the Law of Expert Evidence”

Federalist Society Annual Lawyers Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 21, 2008: Some Conflicts
Between Antidiscrimination Laws and the First Amendment

Albany Law School, Government Law Center Roundtable on Croley, Nov. 19, 2008: Comments on
Chapter 2

Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 10, 2008: Rehabilitating
Lochner

Louisiana and Mississippi State Judicial Conference, Biloxi, MS, July 18, 2007: “Recent Developments
in the Law of Expert Evidence”

American Bar Association, Section on Litigation Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, May 22, 2007:
“Judicial Gatekeeping in Toxic Torts Cases”

American Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C.: “Expert Witnesses, Adversarial Bias, and the (Partial)
Failure of the Daubert Revolution,” April 27, 2007

University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL, Jan. 14, 2007: “Plugging Daubert’s Holes: The
Question of Adversarial Bias”

Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, FL, Sept. 14, 2006: “Plugging Daubert’s Holes:
The
Question of Adversarial Bias”

Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2006: “Plugging Daubert’s Holes: The Question of
Adversarial Bias”

Tel Aviv University Law and Economics Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel, Dec. 22, 2005: "Learning the Wrong Lessons from an American Tragedy"

University of Michigan, Faculty Colloquium, Ann Arbor, MI, Dec.  8, 2005: "Reflections on Lochner's Centennial"

N.Y. Bar Association Section on Products Liability, Dec. 1, 2005: Debate with Aaron Twerski and Margaret Berger on "informed choice"

Washington University, Conference on the First Amendment and the Rehnquist Court, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 18, 2005: "The Rehnquist Court and the Right of Expressive Association"

American Society for Legal History Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, Nov. 11, 20005: "Author Meets Readers: Commentary on Klarman's From Jim Crow to Civil Rights"

University of Michigan, Fawley Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, Oct. 26, 2005: "Rethinking Expert Testimony"

AEI-Brookings Judicial Education Project, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2005: "Frye and Daubert in the States"

American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., April 22, 2005: "Lochner at 100: Still Crazy After All These Years?"

American Society for Legal History Annual Conference, Austin, TX, Oct. 23 2004: "Lochner Era Revision Revised"

Boston University School of Law, Lochner Centennial Conference, Boston, MA, Oct. 9, 2004: Comment on Karlan

Presented talks based on You Can’t Say That! at thirty law schools during the 2003-04 academic year

Institute for Economic Affairs, London, UK, May 10, 2004: "Freedom of Expression and Antidiscrimination Laws"

Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, May 7, 2004: "Forensic Psychiatry and Credibility Evidence"

CaZada College, Redwood City, CA, May 3, 2004: "Are Antidiscrimination Laws Eroding Our Civil Liberties?" (endowed lecture)

Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 16, 2004: "The Threat to Academic Freedom from ‘Hostile Environment’ Rules" (endowed lecture)

Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, April 11, 2003: "Expressive Association After Dale"

Ohio North University, Pettit School of Law, Aida, Ohio, April 10, 2003: "Defending Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws"

Chapman University Law School, Orange, CA, Feb. 14, 2003: "Lochner and the Origins of Fundamental Rights Jurisprudence"

University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA, Feb. 13, 2003: "The Legacy of Lochner’s Legacy"

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, Jan. 14, 2003: "The Legacy of Lochner’s Legacy"

AALS Annual Meeting, Torts Section, Washington, DC, Jan. 4, 2003: "Reparations from a Torts Perspective"

University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor, MI, Nov. 14, 2002: "The Legacy of Lochner’s Legacy"

Columbia Law School, New York, NY, Oct 7, 2002: "The Legacy of Lochner’s Legacy"

Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, Aug. 1, 2002: "Junk Science in the Asbestos Litigation" 

AALS/APSA Conference on Constitutional Law, Washington, DC, June 6, 2002: "New Deal Labor Laws and the Second Reconstruction"

Washington Area Constitutional Studies Colloquium, Washington, DC, Dec. 5, 2001: "Antidiscrimination Laws and Freedom of Expression"

American Society for Legal History, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 8, 2001: "Public Choice and Legal History: Lessons from Work on Race and the Constitution"

Southeastern AALS Conference, Hilton Head, SC, July 16, 2001: "The Admissibility of Non-Scientific Expert Evidence"

Albany Law School, Albany, NY, March 25, 2001: "African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal"

Cato Institute, Washington DC, March 7, 2001: "African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal"

Georgetown Law Center Faculty Colloquium, Washington DC, Feb. 27, 2001: "African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal"

Federalist Society Faculty Division Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 3, 2001: "Implications of Boys Scouts of America v. Dale"

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, May 29, 2000: "Race and Labor Regulation in the Early 20th Century"

Fourth International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 8, 1999: "Recent Developments in the Admissibility of Expert Evidence"

Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas, Nov. 6, 1999: "Railroad Unions, Racism, and the Law"

American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Toronto, CA, Oct. 1999: "The Berea College Case"

Boston University School of Law, Faculty Workshop, Boston, MA, Oct. 1999: "Lochner and the Chinese Laundry Cases"

Canadian Law and Economics Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, CA, Sept. 25, 1999: "Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Expert Evidence: Implications for Litigation" 

William & Mary Bill of Rights Institute conference on Fidelity, Economic Liberty, and 1937, Williamsburg, VA, Feb. 27, 1999: Lochner and the Chinese Laundry Cases

American Law and Economics Association Annual Conference, New Haven, CT, May 7, 1999: "Lochner and the Chinese Laundry Cases"

University of Chicago Legal Forum symposium on Sex Discrimination and the Law, Chicago, IL, Nov. 14, 1998: "Sex Discrimination Laws and Civil Liberties" 

Northwestern University School of Law Federalist Society, Chicago, IL, Nov. 11, 1998: "The Encroachment of Civil Rights Laws on Civil Liberties" (also presented at Chicago-Kent School of Law)

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Workshop Series, Nashville, TN, Nov. 5, 1998: "Lessons from the Judicial Reaction to the Regulation of Chinese Laundries, 1860s to 1930s" 

"Race, Economics, and Legal History," Presentation to Institute for Humane Studies Graduate Summer Seminar, Fairfax, VA, July 20, 1998

"Public Choice, Race, and Legislation," Presentation to Foundation for Economic Education Public Choice Seminar, Fairfax, VA, May 1998

"Tort Law in the Twenty-first Century," Presentation to Washburn University School of  Law, Advanced Torts Seminar (endowed lecture series), September 5 & 6, 1997

"Science and Toxic Torts: Who Decides and How?," Presentation to Federalist Society conference on Junk Science, the Courts, and the Regulatory State, Washington, DC, July 10, 1997

"Race, Ethnicity, and the Law," Presentation to Institute for Humane Studies Liberty and Society Graduate Student Conference, Fairfax, VA, June 9, 1997
 
"Race, Legal History, and Economic Regulation," Presentation to the Humane Studies Fellows Research Colloquium, Herndon, VA, Jan. 12, 1997

"The Law and Economics of Post-Civil War Restrictions on African-American Migration," presentation to American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Panel for Winners of Scholarly Papers Competition, Washington, D.C., Jan. 5, 1997

"Lessons from the American Experience," presentation to Fraser Institute Conference on Canadian Civil Justice System, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 21, 1996

"Statistical Evidence of Damages After Daubert," presentation to the Third International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1, 1996

"Stopping Junk Science: Lessons from the Commonwealth," presentation to Manhattan Institute Conference on Junk Science, New York, N.Y., Feb. 7, 1996

"The History of the Breast Implant Litigation," presentation to Manhattan Institute Conference on Junk Science, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1995

"Scientific Evidence in New Zealand," presentation to Waikato University Faculty of Law," Hamilton, N.Z., May 3, 1995

"Leading Expert Evidence: An American Perspective," presentation to the Sydney University Faculty of Law, Sydney, Australia, April 26, 1995

"The Admissibility of Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry," presentation to the Annual Conference of the Australia/New Zealand Society for Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, Melbourne, Australia, April 6, 1995

"The Law and Economics of Restrictions on Labor Mobility," presentation to the Western Economic Association, Vancouver, B.C., June 30, 1994

"Toxic Tort Litigation and ’Junk Science’ Evidence," presentation to the National Defense Team Meeting of Astra Pharmaceuticals, U.S.A., Bermuda, June 21, 1993

"Racism and Economic Regulation During the Progressive and New Deal Eras," presentation to the Ohio Legal Theory Workshop, Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio, March 26, 1992 

EDUCATION

Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
J.D., May 1991
Honors (highest grade) awarded in two-thirds of classes
Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal
John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
B.A. 1988; summa cum laude with honors in History
G.P.A. 3.91 (top 1% of class); Phi Beta Kappa

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