Washington University in St Louis Andrew D Martin
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Law 551B. Social Scientific Research for Lawyers

Syllabus [PDF]

Readings

Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, and Lisa Michelle Ellman. 2004. "Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals." Virginia Law Review. 90: 301-354. [HeinOnline]

Earl Babbie. 2004. The Practice of Social Research. Wadsworth Publishing, 10th Edition. Chapters 4-5. [PDF]

David L. Faigman, D. H. Kaye, Michael J. Saks, and Joseph Sanders. 2002. Science in the Law: Standards, Statistics and Research Issues. West. Parts of Chapter 4. [PDF]

John O. McGinnis. 2006. "The Age of the Empirical." Policy Review. 136. [Link]

Theodore Eisenberg. 2004. "Why Do Empirical Legal Scholarship." San Diego Law Review. 41: 1741-1746. [Lexis]

Jeffrey A. Segal. 1984. "Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically: The Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981." American Political Science Review. 78: 891-900. [JSTOR]

Lee Epstein and Gary King. 2002. "The Rules of Inference." University of Chicago Law Review. 69: 1-133. [HeinOnline]

Franklin M. Fisher. 1980. "Multiple Regression in Legal Proceedings." Columbia Law Review. 80: 702-736. [JSTOR]

David E. Bernstein, Quackpertise, Wall St. J., Sept. 30, 2006, at A9. [Lexis]

Paul Meier, Jerome Sacks, and Sandy L. Zabell. 1984. "What Happened in Hazelwood: Statistics, Employment Discrimination, and the 80% Rule." American Bar Foundation Research Journal. 9: 139-186. [JSTOR]

Cases

Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923). [Lexis]

Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993). [Lexis]

Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 43 F.3d 1311 (9th Cir. 1995). [Lexis]

Elgin National Watch Co. v. Elgin Clock Co., 26 F.2d 376 (D. Del. 1928). [Lexis]

Zippo Manufacturing Co. v. Rogers Imports, Inc., 216 F. Supp. 670 (S.D.N.Y.1963). [Lexis]

Amstar Corporation v. Domino's Pizza, 615 F.2d 252 (5th Cir. 1980). [Lexis]

Exxon Corp. v. Texas Motor Exchange of Houston, 628 F.2d 500 (5th Cir. 1980). [Lexis]

Bacardi v. New York Lighter, 54 U.S.P.Q.2d 1335 (E.D.N.Y. 2000). [Lexis]

Castaneda v. Partida, 430 U.S. 482 (1977). [Lexis]

Hazelwood School District v. United States, 433 U.S. 299 (1977). [Lexis]

Connecticut v. Teal, 457 U.S. 440 (1982). [Lexis]

Bazemore v. Friday, 478 U.S. 385 (1986). [Lexis]

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