Theorists and Jurists: Fred Schauer, “Can Bad Science Be Good Evidence? Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection and the Mistaken Conflation of Legal and Scientific Norms”

Thursday, November 12, 2009
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Lunch
12:00 – 3:00 PM Lecture and discussion
Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
University at Buffalo Law School
509 O’Brian Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260

Open to the general public

Paper on SSRN

Frederick Schauer is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Previously he served for 18 years as Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he has served as academic dean and acting dean, and before that was a professor of law at the University of Michigan. He is the author of “The Law of Obscenity” (BNA, 1976), “Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry” (Cambridge, 1982), “Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life” (Clarendon/Oxford, 1991), “Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes” (Belknap/Harvard, 2003), and the forthcoming “Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning” (Harvard, 2009). He is also co-editor of “The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings” (1996) and “The First Amendment: A Reader” (1995), and author of numerous articles on constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and press, legal reasoning, and the philosophy of law.