Monahan and Walker's Social Science in Law, Cases and Materials, 7th

This new edition includes thorough incorporation of Daubert v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Supreme Court's landmark decision on scientific evidence, in all areas of expert testimony; in-depth discussion of the growing use of Web-based survey methods to establish consumer confusion in trademark cases; detailed treatment of statistical sampling and the use of general social science "frameworks" to determine damages in mass torts; and the latest research on how judges' backgrounds affect their decisions, including how these "new legal realism" studies fared at the confirmation hearings of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Sotomayor.