David H. Kaye
Distinguished Professor of Law and Weiss Family Faculty Scholar
Education:
J.D., Yale Law School
M.A., Harvard University
B.S., MIT
Professor Kaye is an internationally recognized expert on scientific evidence and statistics in law. He has held teaching appointments at Cornell University, Duke University, the University of Iowa, the University of Utah, and the University of Virginia. He has also taught abroad at the University of Southampton, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, Sichuan University, and Wuhan University. He is a former Regents' Professor of Law and director of the Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology, at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
Professor Kaye's research and teaching focuses on the law of evidence, the use of science and statistics in litigation, and genetics and the law. His publications include ten books and more than 100 articles in journals of law, philosophy, psychology, medicine, genetics, and statistics. Professor Kaye has served as editor of the American Bar Association publication, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, and on committees of the American Statistical Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Justice.
Professor Kaye has taught evidence, law and science, criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, torts, law and economics, legal philosophy, and international human rights law. Prior to teaching, he was an associate in a private law firm in Portland, Oregon, an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and a law clerk to Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Contact Information:
E-mail: dhk3@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8974
Principal Office: University Park
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Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Books and Book Chapters
Editor, Latent Print Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach, 2012, Gaithersburg: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The New Wigmore, A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence (1st ed. 2004, 2d ed. 2011) (with D. Bernstein & J. Mnookin).
Statistics, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, National Research Council Committee on the Development of the Third Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence & Federal Judicial Center eds., 3d ed. 2011, pp. 211-302 (with D.A. Freedman).
DNA Evidence, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, National Research Council Committee on the Development of the Third Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence & Federal Judicial Center eds., 3d ed. 2011, pp. 129-210 (with G. Sensabaugh)
The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence (2010) (Harvard University Press).
McCormick on Evidence (3rd through 6th eds. 1984-2006) (with G. E. Dix et al.).
Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (1st through 4th eds. 1997-2006) (with D. Faigman et. al.).
Prove It with Figures: Empirical Methods in Law and Litigation (1997) (with H. Zeisel) (translated into Chinese and Japanese).
Law Review Articles
The Need for a Research Culture in the Forensic Sciences, 58 UCLA L. Rev. 725 (2011) (with J.L. Mnookin et al.).
The Design of the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation, 52 Science and Justice (2011).
The Expected Value Fallacy in State v. Wright, 51 Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Tech. 1 (2011).
Trapped in the Matrixx: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Need for Statistical Significance, 39 Product Safety & Liability Rep., 1007 (2011).
DNA Database Trawls and the Definition of a Search in Boroian v. Miller, 97 Va. L. Rev. in Brief 41 (2011).
Unraveling the Exclusionary Rule: From Leon to Herring to Robinson—and Back? 58 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse, 207 (2011).
