Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too: Using Special Masters in Daubert Hearings to Promote Scientific Analyses of Expert Testimony

Authors

Luis Balart

Keywords

Expert evidence, Trials (Law), Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Supreme Court case)

Abstract

The article discusses issues on the admissibility of scientific evidence in federal court trials in the U.S., and the use by judges of court-appointed experts and advisors to help in making evidentiary decisions requiring technical or scientific knowledge.

Repository Citation

Luis Balart, Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too: Using Special Masters in Daubert Hearings to Promote Scientific Analyses of Expert Testimony, 80 La. L. Rev. (2020)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/lalrev/vol80/iss3/10