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The observations contained in this chapter suggest that, when it comes to coping with scientific and other expert evidence, neither the Anglo-American adversary system nor the Civil Law system is quite up to the task. But they tend to fail in different ways, and that may provide clues to improving both.
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Saks, M.J. (2003). Expert Witnesses in Europe and the United States. In: van Koppen, P.J., Penrod, S.D. (eds) Adversarial versus Inquisitorial Justice. Perspectives in Law & Psychology, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9196-6_13
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