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Appendix B
Meeting Agenda
First Meeting of the Committee on Daubert Standards
January 27, 2005
Agenda
9:30 Handling Science in the PPA Litigation
A Judge's Perspective
Barbara J. Rothstein, Director, Federal Judicial Center
11:15 Wrestling with Causation in Tort Litigation
Steven Goodman, Associate Professor of Oncology,
Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine
Michael D. Green, Bess and Walter Williams
Distinguished Chair in Law, Wake Forest
University Law School
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Breast Implants Panel of Expert Scientists
Margaret Berger, Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor
of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Joe S. Cecil, Project Director, Program on Scientific and
Technical Evidence, Federal Judicial Center
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DISCUSSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON DAUBERT STANDARDS
2:45 Media Perspective: Academic Science and Drug
Development
David Korn, Senior Vice President, Association of
American Medical Colleges
Barry Meier, The New York Times
4:00 Improving the Gatekeeper's Decision-Making
Shirley S. Abrahamson, Chief Justice, Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Marina Corodemus, Superior Court of New Jersey
Barbara J. Rothstein, Director, Federal Judicial Center
5:15 Adjourn
Second Meeting of the Committee on Daubert Standards
March 27, 2005
Agenda
1:30 Daubert Revisited Areas Needing Further Study
Committee Co-Chairs:
Margaret Berger, Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor
of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Douglas Weed, Chief, Office of Preventive Oncology,
National Cancer Institute, NIH
1. Evidence Synthesis in Science and Law A consider-
ation of the different approaches used by scientists,
lawyers, and judges in the selection, summarization, and
interpretation of scientific evidence.
2. Involvement of Scientists in the Legal Process A
consideration of how the Daubert decision has changed
the involvement, role, and responsibilities of scientists
in the courtroom, and opportunities and challenges for
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Meeting Agenda
more multi-disciplinary education and research in
science and law.
3. Availability of Information A consideration of how
courts and the public respond when scientific informa-
tion is not forthcoming, whether because pertinent
studies were never undertaken, or were conducted but
never disclosed, or were sealed in settlement/secrecy
agreements.
5:30 Adjourn
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