Edward K. Cheng
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Professor of Law

Vanderbilt Law School

Vanderbilt Law School
131 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203

Background Information

My research concentrates on scientific and expert evidence, and the interaction between law and statistics. I teach courses in evidence, torts, criminal law, and scientific evidence.


Working Papers

Forecasting the Future in Punitive Damages Cases: A Statistical Approach (with Albert Yoon) [PDF]



Recent Publications


MODERN SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (2007-08 Edition)
(5 vols.) (with David Faigman, Michael Saks, and Joseph Sanders) [Full ed.] [Student ed.]


A Practical Solution to the Reference Class Problem, 109 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2009) [PDF]

Response: Are Proffers of Inadmissible Evidence Wrongful? 7 International Commentary on Evidence, issue 1, art. 7 (2009) (response) [Link]

Will Quants Rule the (Legal) World?, 107 Michigan Law Review 967 (2009) (book review) [PDF]

The Myth of the Generalist Judge, 61 Stanford Law Review 519 (2008) [PDF]

Opinion Specialization, 92 Judicature 109 (2008) [PDF]

The Perils of Evidentiary Manipulation, 93 Virginia Law Review In Brief 191 (2007).[Link]

Independent Judicial Research in the Daubert Age, 56 Duke Law Journal 1263 (2007) [PDF]

Same Old, Same Old: Scientific Evidence Past and Present, 104 Michigan Law Review 1387 (2006) (book review)

Structural Laws and the Puzzle of Regulating Behavior, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 655 (2006) [PDF]