Historians as Expert Judicial Witnesses in Tobacco Litigation A Controversial Legal Practice /

• Main Author: Delafontaine, Ramses (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice, 4
• Subjects: Law.; History.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; History, general.; Philosophy of Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness. This book focuses on tobacco litigation in the U.S. wherein 50 historians have witnessed in 314 court cases from 1986 to 2014. The author examines the use of...