Edward K. Cheng
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Professor of Law

Brooklyn Law School

Brooklyn Law School
250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

718.780.7550 ph
718.780.0394 fax
edward.cheng@brooklaw.edu

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]