Law and Biology
Morris B. Hoffman

Ten years ago E.O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist, wrote a remarkably ambitious book called Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, in which he predicted that the ever-accelerating insights of evolutionary biology would drive a fundamental convergence of the social and natural sciences. [1] This essay is considerably less ambitious. I’d like to report on the rather remarkable inroads into the law, and into the legal academy, made by post-Darwinian evolutionary thinking—thinking that is itself deeply resonant with the now well-entrenched law and economics movement. [2] This resonance is beginning to shed light on the mysteries of human behavior, and therefore on the mysteries of human institutions, including law. ... More...

Punishing Experts, or Protecting the Courts?
by Louise Andrew, M.D., J.D.

We believe that there are several misstatements and factual reporting errors in the article Punishing Medical Experts for Unethical Testimony: A Step in the Right Direction or a Step too Far?, by David Resnik. More...

A Precautionary Tale: Towards a Sustainable Philosophy of Science
Dr. Andrew Michael Baker

Sustainable management of dwindling resources is perhaps the biggest challenge facing the human species. Successfully addressing this challenge requires holistic perspective: a nebulous connection across disparate realms of science, economics and sociopolitics.  Here, I examine some important historical philosophical ideas in our understanding of science... More...