Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law

When as a practicing lawyer I published my first article on statistical evidence in 1966, the editors of the Harvard Law Review told me that a mathematical equa- 1 tion had never before appeared in the review. This hardly seems possible - but if they meant a serious mathematical equation, perhaps they were right. Today all that has changed in legal academia. Whole journals are devoted to scientific methods in law or empirical studies of legal institutions. Much of this work involves statist...