Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law / David L. Faigman.

New York : Times Books, 2004.

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Science and law -- United States.

1. The lesson of leeches

2. If men were angels: a constitution by and for "corruptible human hands"

3. A covenant with death: 'Dred Scott' and the biology of slavery

4. The roots of modernity: Holmes, Brandeis, and the new legal science

5. "Let us not become legal monks": legal realism and the realistic jurisprudence of the supreme court

6. "Attainder of blood": race and eugenics in the 1940s

7. Autocracy of caste: 'Brown v. board of education' and the golden age of social science

8. The right to be let alone: privacy and the problem of defining life and death

9. Lifter or leveler?: equal protection in the land of rugged individualism

10. In the supreme court we trust: science and supposition in the religion clauses

11. Shouting fire: the moral and empirical consequences of free speech

12. The house that the court built: the future of science at the supreme court.

Includes bibliography and index.

0805072748

xiii, 417 p.