Representative Publications

Saks, Forensic Identification: From a Faith-Based "Science" to a Scientific Science, 201Forensic Sci. Int'l 14 (2010)
 
Faigman, Saks, Sanders & Cheng, eds., Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (West Publishing Co.) (Five volumes) (2010)
 
Including:
Saks, Scientific Method: The Logic of Drawing Inferences from Empirical Evidence
Saks, Ethical Standards of and Concerning Expert Witnesses
Sanders, Saks & Schweitzer, Trial Factfinders and Expert Evidence
 
McQuiston & Saks, The Testimony of Forensic Identification Science: What Expert Witnesses Say and What Factfinders Hear, 33 Law & Human Behavior 436-453 (2009)
 
Saks, The Past and Future of Forensic Science and the Courts, 93 Judicature 94 (2009).
 
Schweitzer & Saks, The Gatekeeper Effect: Judges' Influence on the Persuasiveness of Expert Testimony, 15 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law1 (2009)
 
McQuiston & Saks, Communicating Opinion Evidence in the Forensic Identification Sciences: Accuracy and Impact, 59 Hastings L. J. 1159 (Symposium: The Faces of Forensics: Identification and Behavior) (2008)
 
Saks, Protecting Factfinders from Being Overly Misled, While Still Admitting Weakly Supported Forensic Science into Evidence, 43 Tulsa L. Rev. 609 (Symposium: Daubert, Innocence and the Future of Forensic Science) (2008)
 
Saks & Faigman, Failed Forensics: How Forensic Science Lost Its Way and How it Might Yet Find it, 4 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 149-171 (2008)
 
Saks & Koehler, The Individualization Fallacy in Forensic Science, 61 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 199 (2008)
 
Saks, Remediating Forensic Science, 48 Jurimetrics J. 119 (2007)
 
Schweitzer & Saks, The "CSI Effect": Popular Fiction about Forensic Science Affects the Public's Expectations about Real Forensic Science, 47 Jurimetrics Journal 357 (2007).
 
Moriarty & Saks, Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws, and Judicial Gatekeeping, 44 Judges Journal 16 (Fall, 2005).
 
Saks & Koehler, The Coming Paradigm Shift in Forensic Identification Science, 309 Science 892 (2005).
 
Saks, Faigman, Kaye & Sanders, Annotated Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence - Second (West) (2005).
 
Saks & VanderHaar, On the “General Acceptance” of Handwriting Identification Principles, 50 Journal of Forensic Sciences 119 (2005)
 
Risinger & Saks, Litigation-Directed Research in the Criminal Justice System, XX Issues in Science and Technology 35 (Fall, 2003).
 
Risinger, Saks, Rosenthal & Thompson, The Daubert/Kumho Implications of Observer Effects in Forensic Science: Hidden Problems of Expectation and Suggestion, 90 U. Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2002).
 
Phillips, Saks & Peterson, Signal Detection Theory and Decision-making in Forensic Science, 46 Journal of Forensic Sciences 294 (2001)
 
Saks, The Aftermath of Daubert: An Evolving Jurisprudence of Expert Evidence, 40 Jurimetrics Journal 229 (2000)
 
Saks, M.J. Merlin and Solomon: Lessons from the Law's Formative Encounters with Forensic Identification Science, 49 Hastings Law Journal 1069 (1998)
 

Under Review


Schweitzer, Saks, Murphy, Roskies, Sinnott-Armstrong, Gulley, The Impact of Neuroimages on Juror Decision-making
 
Schweitzer & Saks, Juries' Understanding of Scientific Causation
 
Saks & Neufeld, Parallel Evolution in Law and Science: The Structure of Decision-making Under Uncertainty