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Brooklyn Law School Symposium
A Cross-Disciplinary Look at Scientific Truth:
What’s the Law to Do?

Friday, March 2, 2007
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Agenda
 
8:15 a.m.Registration and Continental Breakfast
 
9:00 a.m.Welcome

Dean Joan G. Wexler,
Joseph Crea Dean and Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
 

9:15 a.m.Panel I: Truth in Science: First Principles

Moderator:

Bailey H. Kuklin, J.D.
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School

Speakers:

Susan Haack, Ph.D.
Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences
Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law
University of Miami

Douglas L. Weed, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Office of Preventive Oncology and Dean of Education and Training
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute (NIH)

Dennis M. Patterson, J.D., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Law
Rutgers School of Law – Camden

11:30 a.m.Roundtable Discussion

D. Michael Risinger, J.D.
Professor of Law
Seton Hall Law School

12:00 p.m.Luncheon and Speaker

Tal Golan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
University of California, San Diego
“Daubert: An Historical Perspective”

1:15 p.m.Panel II: Modeling Truth: What Can We Prove?

Moderator:

Margaret A. Berger, J.D.
Suzanne J. & Norman Miles Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School

Speakers:

Jennifer L. Mnookin, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law

Steven Goodman, M.M.H.S., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Co-director, Epidemiology Doctoral Program
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Richard Scheines, Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant:

Joshua Knobe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of North Carolina

3:30 p.m.Panel III: The Discovery of Truth in Context

Moderator:

Lawrence M. Solan, J.D., Ph.D.
Don Forchelli Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Brooklyn Law School

Speakers:

David Faigman, J.D.
Distinguished Professor of Law
University of California, Hastings

Richard B. Katskee, J.D.
Assistant Legal Director
Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Frank C. Keil, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Yale University

Discussant:

Sam Glucksberg, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Princeton University

5:30 p.m.Roundtable Discussion

Edward K. Cheng, J.D.
Associate Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School







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