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-BOOKS
-BOOK CHAPTERS
-REPORTS & MONOGRAPHS
-ARTICLES
-BRIEF COMMENTS
-LETTERS, EDITORIALS & BLOGS
-ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
-BOOK REVIEWS
-CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGSChronological in bluebook format
Books
- DNA Identification and the Threat to Civil Liberties. New Haven: Yale University Press (expected 2013)
NIST Expert Working Group on Human Factors in Latent Print Analysis, Latent Print Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach, Gaithersburg: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2012 (editor)
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The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010, 342 pp.
- The New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence, New York: Aspen Pub. Co. (with D.E. Bernstein & J.L. Mnookin) (updated annually)
- 2d ed., 2011, 806 pp.
- 1st ed., 2004, 609 pp.
- McCormick on Evidence, St. Paul, MN: West Group (with co-authors)
- Supplement to 6th ed., 2009, K. Broun ed.
- 6th ed., 2006, K. Broun ed., 2 volumes, 1950 pp.
- 6th student ed., 2006, K. Broun ed., 633 pp.
- Supplement to 5th ed., 2003, 185 pp.
- 5th ed., 1999, J. Strong ed., 2 volumes, 1717 pp.
- 5th student ed., 583 pp.
- 4th ed., 1992
- Supplement to 3d ed., 1987
- 3d ed., E. Cleary ed., 1984
- Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony, St. Paul, MN: West Group (editor and author, with D. Faigman, M. Saks and J. Sanders)
- 4th ed. 2007, 4 volumes, 3365 pp.
- 3d ed. 2005, 4 volumes, 2498 pp.
- 2d ed. 2002, 4 volumes, 2414 pp.
- 1st ed. 1997, 2 volumes, 1452 pp.
- Annotated Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, St. Paul, MN: West Group (with D. Faigman, M. Saks, and J. Sanders)
- 2005-2006 ed., 821 pp.
- 2004 ed., 801 pp.
Prove It with Figures: Empirical Methods in Law and Litigation, 1997, 353 pp., New York, NY: Springer-Verlag Publishers (with H. Zeisel) (translations: China 2008; Japan 2011)
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- Science in Evidence, 1997, 409 pp., Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Pub. Co.
National Research Council, The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence, 1996, 254 pp., Washington, DC: National Academy Press (with ten other members of the Committee on DNA Forensic Science: An Update)
- Health Care Law, Forensic Science and Public Policy, Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1993 supplement; 4th ed. 1990 (with W. Curran & M. Hall)
- Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation, New York: Marcel Dekker, Statistics Series, Vol. 69, 1986, 232 pp. (editor, with M. Aickin)
Book Chapters and Forewords
- Expert and Scientific Evidence, in Reader in American Law for Chinese Law Students, John Nagel, ed., Beijing: Peking University Press, 2012, ch. 12, pp, 192-204 (in press)
- Reference Guide on Statistics, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Washington, DC (with David A. Freedman)
- Reference Guide on DNA Evidence, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Washington, DC (with George Sensabaugh)
- Foreword, in Franco Taroni et al., Data Analysis in Forensic Science: A Bayesian Decision Perspective, John Wiley & Sons, 2010
- Behavioral Genetics Research and Criminal DNA Databases: Laws and Policies, in The Impact of Behavioral Sciences in Criminal Law, N. Faranhy ed., New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009, pp. 355-387. Note: This is a condensed version of a paper published in Law and Contemporary Problems (see infra, Articles)
- Note: The published version is available in IMS Collections 2008, Vol. 2, 289-301) via arXiv by DOI link or direct link.
DNA Probabilities in People v. Prince: When Are Racial and Ethnic Statistics Relevant?, in Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of David A. Freedman, T. Speed & D. Nolan eds., Beachwood, OH: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2007, pp. 289-301.
DNA Databases for Law Enforcement: The Coverage Question and the Case for a Population-Wide Database, in DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice, D. Lazer ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004, pp. 247-284 (with M.E. Smith). Note: The chapter also appears, in slightly different form, in the Wisconsin Law Review (see infra, Articles).
The Forensic Debut of the NRC's DNA Report: Population Structure, Ceiling Frequencies and the Need for Numbers, in Human Identification, Bruce Weir ed., Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 99-105
- What is Bayesianism?, in Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Uses and Limits of Bayesianism, P. Tillers and E. Green, eds., Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1988, pp. 1-19
- Hypothesis Testing in the Courtroom, in Contributions to the Theory and Application of Statistics, A. Gelfand ed., New York: Academic Press, 1987, pp. 331-356
- The Place of Statistics in Establishing Unconstitutional Acts of Discrimination, in Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation, New York: Marcel Dekker, Statistics Series, Vol. 69, 1986, pp. 1-11
- Statistical Evidence of Discrimination in Jury Selection, in Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation, New York: Marcel Dekker, Statistics Series, vol. 69, 1986, pp. 13-32
Encyclopedia Entries
- Interpretation, in Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, J. Siegel & P. Saukko eds., Elsevier, 2013, vol. 1, ch. 23
Interpretation: A Legal Perspective, in Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens eds., John Wiley & Sons, 2009, vol. 3, pp. 1561-1566
Evidence and Proof, Scientific, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, D. Clark ed., Sage Publications, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 527-529
Zeisel, Hans (1905-1992), in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, D. Clark ed., Sage Publications, 2007, vol. 3, pp. 1599-1600
- Social Science Research in Constitutional Litigation (with H. Zeisel), in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, L. Levy ed., New York: Free Press, 1986, pp. 1702-1704
Conference Proceedings
DNA Identification in Criminal Cases: Lingering and Emerging Evidentiary Issues, Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Human Identification, 1997, pp. 12-26, Madison Wisconsin: Promega Corp.
- Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Tempe AZ: Arizona State University Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology, 1993, 286 pp. (editor, with W. Harnagel)
- Some Mathematical and Legal Considerations in Using Serologic Tests to Prove Paternity, in Inclusion Probabilities in Parentage Testing, R. Walker ed. Arlington, VA: American Ass'n of Blood Banks, 1983, pp. 153-167 (with M. Aickin)
Articles
The Genealogy Detectives: A Constitutional Analysis of “Familial Searching”, American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 2013 (in press)
A Fourth Amendment Theory for Arrestee DNA and Other Biometric Databases, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 15 (in press)
The Need for a Research Culture in the Forensic Sciences, UCLA Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 3, February 2011, pp. 725-779 (with J.L. Mnookin et al.)
Science in the Jury Box: Jurors' Comprehension of Mitochondrial DNA Evidence, Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 35, No. 1, February 2011, pp. 60-71 (with V. Hans et al.) DOI 10.1007/s10979-010-9222-8
Probability, Individualization, and Uniquess in Forensic Science Evidence: Listening to the Academies, Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 4, Summer 2010, pp. 1163-1185 (festschrift)
Identification, Individuality, and Uniqueness: What's the Difference?, Law, Probability & Risk, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2009, pp. 85-94 (festschrift) DOI: 10.1093/lpr/mgp018
Where Have All the Women Gone? The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Clerkships, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 49, No. 4, Summer 2009, pp. 411-437 (with J.L. Gastwirth)
Trawling DNA Databases for Partial Matches: What Is the FBI Afraid Of?, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 19, No. 1, Fall 2009, pp. 145-171
Rounding Up the Usual Suspects: A Legal and Logical Analysis of DNA Database Trawls, North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, January 2009, pp. 425-503
People v. Nelson: A Tale of Two Statistics, Law, Probability, and Risk, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2008, pp. 249-257
The Role of Race in DNA Evidence: What Experts Say, What California Courts Allow, Southwestern Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 2. pp. 303-322, 2008 (Evidence Symposium: CEC v. FRE)
Statistics in the Jury Box: How Jurors Respond to Mitochondrial DNA Probabilities, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 797-834 (with V. Hans et al.)
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Please, Let's Bury the Junk: The CODIS Loci and the Revelation of Private Information, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Vol. 102, September 2007, pp. 70-81
Mopping Up After Coming Clean About "Junk DNA", November 23, 2007, 5 pp., available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1032094
The Science of DNA Identification: From the Laboratory to the Courtroom (And Beyond), Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp. 409-421
Revisiting Dreyfus: A More Complete Account of a Trial by Mathematics, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 3, February 2007, pp. 825-835
The Current State of Bullet-Lead Evidence, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 46, No. 1, Fall 2006, pp. 99-114
Who Needs Special Needs? On the Constitutionality of Collecting DNA and Other Biometric Data from Arrestees, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 188-198
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Behavioral Genetics Research and Criminal DNA Databanks, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 69, Nos. 1 & 2, Winter-Spring 2006, pp. 259-299
The NRC Bullet-Lead Report: Should Science Committees Make Legal Findings?, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2005, pp. 91-105
On "Falsification" and "Falsifiability": The First Daubert Factor and the Philosophy of Science, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2005, pp. 473-481
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Logical Relevance: Problems with the Reference Population and DNA Mixtures in People v. Pizarro, Law, Probability, and Risk, Vol. 3, No. 3-4, 2004, pp. 211-220
The Misquantification of Probative Value, Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 27, No. 6, Dec. 2003, pp. 645-659 (with J. Koehler)
DNA Identification Databases: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Case for Population-Wide Coverage, Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2003, No. 3, Spring 2003, pp. 414-459 (published in slightly different form in DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice, D. Lazer ed., Cambridge, Mass.: 2004, MIT Press, pp. 247-284
- The Nonscience of Fingerprinting: United States v. Llera-Plaza, Quinnipiac Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2003, pp. 1073-1088
Questioning a Courtroom Proof of the Uniqueness of Fingerprints, International Statistical Review, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2003, pp. 521-533
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The Dynamics of Daubert: Methodology, Conclusions, and Fit in Statistical and Econometric Studies, Virginia Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 8, December 2001, pp. 1933-2018
Two Fallacies About DNA Databanks for Law Enforcement, Brooklyn Law Review, Fall 2001, Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 179-206
The Constitutionality of DNA Sampling on Arrest, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer 2001, pp. 455-509
- DNA Typing: Emerging or Neglected Issues, Washington Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, April 2001, pp. 413-474 (with E.J. Imwinkelried)
- Choice and Boundary Problems in Logerquist, Hummert, and Kumho Tire, Arizona State Law Journal, Spring 2001, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 41-74
The Propriety of "Facial Challenges" to Prior Restraints on the Use of the Internet for Scientific Speech, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 40, No. 4, Summer 2000, pp. 441-456
- How Good is Good Enough?, Expert Evidence Under Daubert and Kumho, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 50, 2000, pp. 645-667 (with D. Faigman, M. Saks & J. Sanders)
Bioethics, Bar, and Bench: Selected Arguments in Landry v. Attorney General, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, 2000, Vol. 40, 2000, pp. 193-21
Clarifying the Burden of Persuasion: What Bayesian Decision Rules Do and Do Not Do, International Journal of Evidence and Proof, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1999, pp. 1-28
Non-human DNA Evidence, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1998, pp. 1-16 (with George Sensabaugh)
Expert Advice on Silicone Gel Breast Implants: Hall v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 37, No. 2, 1997, pp. 113-128
Bible Reading: DNA Evidence in Arizona, Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, 1996, pp. 1035-1077
The Relevance of "Matching" DNA: Is the Window Half Open or Half Shut?, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 85, No. 3, 1995, pp. 676-695
The Forensic Debut of the NRC's DNA Report: Population Structure, Ceiling Frequencies and the Need for Numbers, Genetica, Vol. 96, pp. 99-105, reprinted in Human Identification, Bruce Weir ed., Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995
DNA Evidence: Probability, Population Genetics and the Courts, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 7, Fall 1993, pp. 101-172
Proof in Law and Science, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 3, Spring 1992, pp. 313-322
- Validating the Probability of Paternity, Transfusion, Vol. 31, 1991, pp. 823-828 (with T.M. Vyvial and D. Young)
The Admissibility of DNA Testing, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 13, Nos. 2-3, November 1991, pp. 353-360
Statistics for Lawyers and Law for Statistics, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 6, May 1991, pp. 1520-1544 (review essay)
- Improving Legal Statistics, Law and Society Review, Vol. 24, No. 5, 1990, pp. 1255-1275 (review essay)
Legal and Statistical Aspects of Mysterious Clusters, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 154, Part I, 1991, pp. 61-74 (with S. Fienberg)
Can Jurors Understand Probabilistic Evidence?, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 154, Part I, 1991, pp. 75-81 (with J. Koehler)
- DNA Paternity Probabilities Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3 1990, pp. 279-304
Presumptions, Probability and Paternity, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 30, Spring 1990, pp. 323-349
- The Probability of an Ultimate Issue: The Strange Cases of Paternity Testing, Iowa Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 1, October 1989, pp. 75-109
- Admissibility of Genetic Testing in Paternity Litigation: A Survey of State Statutes, Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 1988, pp. 109-115 (with R. Kanwischer)
The Logic and Antilogic of Secret Rights, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 72, No. 3, February 1988, pp. 603-625
What is Bayesianism? A Guide for the Perplexed, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 28, No. 2, Winter 1988, pp. 161-177 [preprinted from Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Uses and Limits of Bayesianism, P. Tillers and E. Green, eds., Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1988, pp. 1-19)
- Apples and Oranges: Confidence Coefficients and the Burden of Persuasion, Cornell Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 1, November 1987, pp. 4-77
The Validity of Tests: Caveant Omnes, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 27, No. 4, Summer 1987, pp. 349-361
The Admissibility of Probability Evidence in Criminal Trials (pt. 1) Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 26, No. 4, Summer 1986, pp. 343-346
(pt. 2), Vol. 27, No. 2, Winter 1987, pp. 160-172
Is Proof of Statistical Significance Relevant?, Washington Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 4, October 1986, pp. 1333-1365
Do We Need a Calculus of Weight to Understand Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 66, Nos. 3 & 4, May-July 1986, pp. 657-672 (reprinted in Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Uses and Limits of Bayesianism, P. Tillers and E. Green, eds., Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1988, pp. 129-145)
- Statistical Analysis in Jury Discrimination Cases, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 25, No. 3, Spring 1985, pp. 274-289
- A Comment on Causal Apportionment, Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1984, pp. 191-208 (with M. Aickin)
- Statistical Significance and the Burden of Persuasion, Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 46, No. 4, Autumn 1983, pp. 13-23 (reprinted in The Law of Employment Discrimination: Cases and Commentary, Paul N. Cox, Sterling Heights, Michigan: Lupus Publishing Co. 1992)
- Statistical Evidence of Discrimination, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 77, No. 396, December 1982, pp. 773-792
- The Limits of the Preponderance of the Evidence Standard: Justifiable Naked Statistical Evidence and Multiple Causation, American Bar Foundation Research Journal, Vol. 1982, No. 2, Spring 1982, pp. 487-516 (reprinted in Evidence and Proof, W. Twining & A. Stein, eds., Aldershot, England: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1992, and in Economics of Evidence, Procedure and Litigation, C.W. Sanchiro, ed., Williston, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2007)
- The Numbers Game: Statistical Inference in Discrimination Cases, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 4, March 1982, pp. 833-856 (review essay)
- Paradoxes, Gedanken Experiments and the Burden of Proof: A Response to Dr. Cohen's Reply, Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 1981, No. 2, pp. 635-645
(reprinted in An Evidence Anthology Edward J. Imwinkelried & Glen Weisenberger eds., Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson Publishing Co., 1996)
- An A is an A is an A: An Exploratory Analysis of a New Method for Adjusting Undergraduate Grades for Law School Admissions Purposes, Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 31, Nos. 1-2, September 1981, pp. 233-241
- Searching for Truth About Testing, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 90, No. 2, December 1980, pp. 431-457 (review essay)
- Naked Statistical Evidence, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 89, No. 3, January 1980, pp. 601-611 (review essay)
- Mathematical Models and Legal Realities: Some Comments on the Poisson Model of Jury Behavior, Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 13, Fall 1980, pp. 1-15
- And Then There Were Twelve: The Supreme Court, Statistical Reasoning, and the Size of the Jury, California Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 5, September 1980, pp. 401-441
- Playing Games with Justice: Rawls and the Maximin Rule, Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1980, pp. 33-51
Probabilities and Proof: Can HLA and Blood Test Evidence Prove Paternity?, New York University Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 6, December 1979, pp. 1131-1162 (with I. Ellman)
Probability Theory Meets Res Ipsa Loquitor, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 77, No. 6, June 1979, pp. 1456-1484
- The Laws of Probability and the Law of the Land, University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 1, Fall 1979, pp. 34-56 (reprinted in Logic, Probability and Presumptions in Legal Reasoning, S. Brewer ed., New York: Garland Publishing, 1998; and An Evidence Anthology, E. J. Imwinkelried & G. Weisenberger eds., Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson Publishing Co., 1996)
- The Paradox of the Gatecrasher and Other Stories, Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 1978, No. 4, pp. 101-109
Congressional Papers, Judicial Subpoenas and the Constitution, UCLA Law Review, Vol. 24, February 1977, pp. 523-580
- Congressional Papers and Judicial Subpoenas, UCLA Law Review, Vol. 23, October 1975, pp. 57-76
- Attempt to Monopolize in the Ninth Circuit: The Legacy of Lessig, Willamette Law Journal, Vol. 12, Spring 1976, pp. 331-344
- Equity on the Campus: The Limits of Injunctive Regulation of University Protest, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 81, April 1971, pp. 987-1034
Brief Comments
Chimeric Criminals, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall 2012, pp. __
- Will the Courts and Latent Print Examiners Embrace Likelihood Ratios?, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A, Vol. 175, 2012, pp.__
The Expected Value Fallacy in State v. Wright, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 51, No. 4, Fall 2011, pp. 1-8
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Trapped in the Matrixx: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Need for Statistical Significance, Product Safety and Liability Reporter (BNA), Vol. 39, No. 36, Sept. 12, 2011, pp. 1007-1018
also published in Expert Evidence Report (BNA), Vol. 11, No. 20, Oct. 24, 2011, pp. 494-499 and Class Action Litigator Reporter (BNA), Vol. 12, No. 21, Nov. 11, 2011, pp. 1053-58
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DNA Database Trawls and the Definition of a Search in Boroian v. Mueller, Virginia Law Review in Brief, Vol. 97, 2011, pp. 41-49
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Unraveling the Exclusionary Rule: From Leon to Herring to Robinson—and Back?, UCLA Law Review Discourse, Vol. 58, 2011, No. 4, pp. 207-214
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Bayes Wars Redivivus — An Exchange, International Commentary on Evidence, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Art. 1, Nov. 2010 (with Roger C. Park et al.) DOI: 10.2202/1554-4567.1115
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The NRC Report on Strengthening Forensic Science in America, Science & Justice, Vol. 50, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 8-11
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GINA's Genotypes, Michigan Law Review First Impressions, Vol. 108, January 2010, pp. 51-57
- "False, But Highly Persuasive": How Wrong Were the Probability Estimates in McDaniel v. Brown?, Michigan Law Review First Impressions, Vol. 108, September 2009, pp. 1-7
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(reprinted in abridged form in AALS Evidence Section Newsletter, Fall-Winter 2009, pp. 9–12)
People v. Nelson: A Tale of Two Statistics, Law, Probability, and Risk, Vol. 7, No. 4, September 2008, pp. 249-257
The Disappearance that Wasn't? "Random Variation" in the Number of Women Supreme Court Clerks, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 48, No. 4, Summer 2008, pp. 457-463
On a Mathematical Argument for Splitting the Ninth Circuit, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 48, Spring 2008, pp. 329-336
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Science Fiction and Shed DNA, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Vol. 101, No. 7, December 2006, pp. 62 et seq.
Can Jury Trial Innovations Improve Juror Understanding of DNA Evidence?, NIJ Journal, November 2006, pp. 2-7 (with B.M. Dann & V.P. Hans)
reprinted, Judicature, Vol. 90, No. 4, Jan.-Feb. 2007 and The Prosecutor, Vol. 40, Nov.-Dec. 2006, pp. 20-24
Two Theories of the Civil Burden of Persuasion, Law, Probability and Risk, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003, pp. 9-13
Adversarial Econometrics in United States Tobacco Co. v. Conwood Co., Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 43, No. 3. Spring 2003, pp. 343-352
Editor's Preface: DNA Evidence, False Positives, and "Natural Frequencies," Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 43, No. 2 Winter 2003, pp. vii-ix
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The Error of Equal Error Rates, Law, Probability, and Risk, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-8, July 2002
- Criminal Law and DNA Science: Balancing Societal Interests and Civil Liberties, American University Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, February 2002, pp. 407-13, 427-29 (transcript of panel discussion)
- Bioethical Objections to DNA Databases for Law Enforcement: Questions and Answers, Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 31, 2001, No. 4, pp. 936-948
- Laboratory Error and the Character Evidence Rule, Association of American Law Schools Section on Evidence Newsletter, Spring-Summer 2001, pp. 4-6 (with E.J. Imwinkelried)
Bayes, Burdens, and Base Rates, International Journal of Evidence and Proof, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2000, pp. 260-267
- Mendel Meets Madison Avenue, October 2000, oncology.com
- DNA Sampling on Arrest and the Fourth Amendment, Government, Law, and Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 38-41
- Respecting Genetic Privacy: A Foreword, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science and Technology, Vol. 40, No. 1, Fall 1999, pp. 1-8
Statistical Decision Theory and the Burdens of Persuasion: Completeness, Generality, and Utility, International Journal of Evidence and Proof, Vol. 1, Special Issue, 1997, pp. 313-315
Joiner and Scheffer: Scientific Evidence in the Supreme Court, Association of American Law Schools Section on Evidence Newsletter, Fall 1997, pp. 2-6
- DNA, NAS, NRC, DAB, RFLP, PCR, and More: An Introduction to the Symposium on the 1996 NRC Report on Forensic DNA Evidence, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 37, No. 4, Summer 1997, pp. 395-404
- Cross-Examining Science, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 36, No. 2, Winter 1996, pp. vii-x
- Probability and Proof in State v. Skipper: An Internet Exchange, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 35, No. 3, Spring 1995, pp. 292-294, 304-307 (with David Balding)
- On Standards and Sociology, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 32, Summer 1992, pp. 535-546
Comment, Credal Probablity, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 13, Nos. 2-3, November 1991, pp. 647-656
- Comment, Uncertainty in DNA Profile Evidence, Statistical Science, Vol. 6, No. 2, May 1991, pp. 196-200
- Colloquy on Copyright Protection of Computer Software, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 31, No. 1, Fall, 1990, pp. 168-169
Plemel as a Primer on Proving Paternity, Willamette Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4, Fall 1988, pp. 867-883
- Statistical Evidence: How to Avoid the "Diderot Effect," Inside Litigation, Vol. 2, No. 6, April 1988, pp. 21-25
- Comment, The Polygraph and the PVP, Statistical Science, Vol. 2, No. 3, August 1987, pp. 223-226
- Comment, A First Look at Second Order Evidence, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 4-5, May-July 1986, pp. 701-707 (reprinted in Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Limits of Bayesianism, P. Tillers and E. Green, eds., Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1988, pp. 177-183)
Comment, Quantifying Probative Value, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 4-5, May-July 1986, pp. 761-766
- Discussion, in Law School Admissions, 1984-2001: Selecting Lawyers for the Twenty-First Century, W. Raushenbush ed., Newtown, Pa.: Law School Admissions Council, 1986, pp. 127-129
The Pitfalls of Empirical Research: Studying Faculty Publication Studies Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 36, March 1986, pp. 24-34 (with I.M. Ellman
Hypergeometric Confusion in the Fourth Circuit, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 26, No. 3, Spring 1986, pp. 215-223
- Thinking Like a Statistician: A Report on Training in Statistics in Selected Professions, Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 34, No. 1, March 1984, pp. 97-102
- Comment, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 75, No. 372, December 1980, pp. 818-819 (discussing Rubin, Using Empirical Bayes Estimators in Law School Validity Studies)
Book Reviews
- A Pioneer's Memoir, Judicature, Vol. 92, No. 2, September-October 2008, pp. 86-87
- Law and History Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2003, pp. 623-626 (reviewing James Franklin, The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal, Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2001)
- Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 42, No. 4, Summer 2002, pp. 501-503 (reviewing Michael Baden & Marion Roach, Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001)
- Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 16, No. 7, April 15, 1997, pp. 826-828 (reviewing B. Robertson and G.A. Vignaux, Interpreting Evidence: Evaluating Forensic Evidence in the Courtroom, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1995)
- Contemporary Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 9, September 1990, pp. 839-840 (reviewing S.E. Fienberg ed., The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts, New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1989
- Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 84, No. 408, December 1989, p. 1094 (reviewing Joseph Gastwirth, Statistical Reasoning in Law and Public Policy, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1988)
- Please Pass the Social Science, Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 35, No. 4, December 1985, pp. 495-506
- Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 32, April 1982, pp. 145-152 (reviewing Philip Shuchman, How Legal Scholars Fail: A Review and a Modest Proposal, West Hartford, CT: University of Connecticut Law School Press, 1979)
- Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 76, No. 376, March 1981, pp. 210-211 (reviewing Werner Z. Hirsch, Law and Economics: An Introductory Analysis, Academic Press, 1979)
- Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 1977, No. 3, pp. 697-714 (reviewing Leon Jaworski, The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate, New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1976)
Letters, Editorials, and Blogs
- Forensic Science, Statistics, and the Law, blog initiated March 2011
- Double Helix Law Blog, initiated October 2009
- Science and Law Blog, Law Professors Blog Network, August, 2006, through August, 2009 (with occasional contributions from D.L. Faigman and E.K. Cheng)
- ◄abstract► The Design of "the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation," Science and Justice, Vol. 52, 2011 (in press),
Osborne and the Right to Post-Conviction DNA Testing, AALS Evidence Section Newsletter, Fall-Winter 2008, pp. 2-4
The Math Behind DNA Matching, Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 1, 2008
Rounding Up the Usual Suspects, AALS Evidence Section Newsletter, Spring-Summer 2008, pp. 2-4
Female High Court Clerks: Drop Could Be Anomaly, National Law Journal, October 30, 2006 (with J.L. Gastwirth)
Is a DNA Identification Database in Your Future?, Criminal Justice, Vol. 16 No. 3, Fall 2001, pp. 4-11 (with M.S. Smith & I.J. Imwinkelried)
- Commentary on "Proficiency of Professional Document Examiners in Writer Identification," Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 6, November 1994, p. 1344
Letter, The Problem of Nonresponse: Remarks on a Recent Survey of Clinical Education, Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 43, December 1993, pp. 594-95
- Letter, More on "What Judges Should Know About the Sociology of Science," Judicature, Vol. 77, November-December 1993, p. 175
- Letter, Justice Denied?, ABA Journal, February 1992, p. 16
- Punitive Damages and Innovation, Science, Vol. 247, March 16, 1990, p. 1280
- Reasonable Doubt?, Nature, Vol. 342, November 23, 1989, p. 346
- Dear Editor, Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 1989, pp. 427-430
- The Prevalence of Paternity in "One-Man" Cases of Disputed Parentage, American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 42, June 1988, pp. 898-900
- The Honorable Bridlegoose Rolls to Judgment (with H. Zeisel), New York Times, Feb. 26, 1982, p. 22
- Letter, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 299, November 9, 1978, p. 1082
Reports and Monographs
- ◄abstract | full report► Testing the Effects of Selected Jury Trial Innovations on Juror Comprehension of Contested mtDNA Evidence, Final Technical Report, National Institute of Justice, December 30, 2004, NIJ Grant No. 2002-IJ-CX-0026 (with B.M. Dann & V.P. Hans)
The Retention and Subsequent Use of Suspect, Elimination, and Victim DNA Samples or Records: A Report to the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, November 13, 2000 (with Cecelia Crouse)
The Legality of Retaining Elimination Samples: A Report to the Legal Issues Working Group of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, September 19, 2000
Forensic DNA Typing -- Selected Legal Issues: A Report to the Working Group on Legal Issues, National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, February 2, 2000 (with Edward Imwinkelried)
A more recent version of this report appeared in the Washington Law Review.
The Constitutionality of DNA Sampling on Arrest: An Interim Report to the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, January 22, 2000, published in condensed form as "DNA Sampling on Arrest and the Fourth Amendment," Government, Law, and Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 38-41
A more recent version of this report appeared in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.