Scientific Expertise and Comparative Criminal Procedure

Abstract

… the legacy of postmodernism is that truth is not fixed, meanings are ‘located’ provisionally, not ‘discovered’ and people who ‘find’ truth, whether judges, juries, critics, or, yes, even scientists, have interests — social, economic, political, racial, gender — that affect how they see the world. However much we may be convinced of the merits of the Anglo-Saxon judicial system, the courtroom is not the best place, and the adversary procedure is not the right method, to decide what is and what is not a science.