Law and Contemporary Problems:

Volume 64	Number 4

LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS

Causation in Law and Science John M. Conley Special Editor

Foreword	John M. Conley	1

Scientific Ignorance and Reliable Patterns of Evidence in Toxic Tort Causation: Is There a Need for Liability Reform?	Carl F. Cranor David A. Eastmond	5

The Swine Flu Vaccine and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Case Study in Relative Risk and Specific Causation	David A. Freedman Philip B. Stark	49

Scientific Models of Human Health Risk Analysis in Legal and Policy Decisions	Douglas Crawford-Brown	63

Causation and the Law: Preemption, Lawful Sufficiency, and Causal Sufficiency	Richard Fumerton Ken Kress	83

The Admissibility of Differential Diagnosis Testimony to Prove Causation in Toxic Tort Cases: The Interplay of Adjective and Substantive Law	Joseph Sanders Julie Machal-Fulks	107

Assessing Causation in Breast Implant Litigation: The Role of Science Panels	Laural L. Hooper Joe S. Cecil Thomas E. Willging	139

Too Many Probabilities: Statistical Evidence of Tort Causation	David W. Barnes	191

Of Cherries, Fudge, and Onions: Science and Its Courtroom Perversion	David W. Peterson John M. Conley	213

The Relation Between Counterfactual ("But For") and Causal Reasoning: Experimental Findings and Implications for Jurors' Decisions	Barbara A. Spellman Alexandra Kincannon	241

Causation, Contribution, and Legal Liability: An Empirical Study	Lawrence M. Solan John M. Darley	265

Rationalism and Empiricism in Modern Medicine	Warren Newton	299

Culture and Causality: Non-Western Systems of Explanation	William M. O'Barr	317

LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS

Causation in Law and Science