AP/SOSC 4364 6.00

Honours Seminar: Law, Science Proof

This honours seminar explores the debates that surround the use of scientific evidence in the courtroom and how judges, lawyers, and scholars have sought to solve the complex problems that occur when legal actors are obliged to evaluate scientific evidence. While the course focuses primarily on scientific evidence with a particular emphasis on Canadian criminal law, it also covers some of the other controversies that surround the relationship between science and the law.