Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence

3rd edition. — Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011. — 1016 p.The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is formulated to provide the tools for judges to manage cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence. It describes basic principles of major scientific fields from which legal evidence is typically derived and provides examples of cases in which such evidence was used. Authors of the chapters were asked to provide an overview of principles and methods of the science and provide relevant citations.
Reference Manual is organized according to many of the important scientific and technological disciplines likely to be encountered by federal (or state) judges.