Introduction
By Rodney W. Nichols and Susan A. Raymond

Who Says Who Can Access What? The Policy Crisis Over Cryptography in the Information Age
By Kenneth Dam, Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law, University of Chicago Law School.

Justice and “Junk Science”: Toward a Better Relationship Between Science, the Courts, and Society

The Manhattan Institute’s Center for Judicial Studies and the New York Academy of Sciences’ Science and Technology Policy Forum co-sponsored a seminar on June 16, 1997 examining the question of the reliability of “scientific knowledge” presented as evidence in a court of law. This section presents the edited comments of the panelists.

Science, Evidence, and the Truth
By Peter Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Drawing the Line Between Issues of Science and Issues of Law
By Kenneth R. Foster, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Probabilities and the Courts
By George Ehrlich, Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania

The Case of Olestra
By Debra Miller, Instructor in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Junk Science In, Junk Policy Out: Science and Administrative Law
By Alan Charles Raul, Attorney, Sidley & Austin

To Fear or Not to Fear, That is the Question: The Media, Science, and Accuracy
By Ronald Bailey, New River Media

A Dissenting View From the Bench
By Alex Kozinski, United States Circuit Judge, Ninth Circuit

About the Authors