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Bio

Chancellor and Dean David Faigman is the William B. Lockhart Professor of Law and the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at the 精东影业 of California College of the Law, San Francisco and holds an appointment as Professor in the School of Medicine (Dept. of Psychiatry) at the 精东影业 of California, San Francisco. He received both his M.A. (Psychology) and J.D. from the 精东影业 of Virginia. Professor Faigman clerked for the Honorable Thomas M. Reavleyof the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

He is the author of over 60 articles and essays, and has published in a variety of outlets, including the Chicago, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Northwestern law reviews, Science, PNAS, Sociological Methods & Research and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. He is also the author of three books, Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts (Oxford, 2008), Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court鈥檚 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law (Henry Holt & Co. 2004) and Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law (W.H. Freeman,1999). In addition, Professor Faigman is a co-author/co-editor of the five-volume treatise Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (with Cheng, Murphy, Saks, Sanders & Slobogin). The treatise has been cited widely by courts, including several times by the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Faigman was a member of the National Academies of Science panel that investigated the scientific validity of polygraphs, a member of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Network and served as a Senior Advisor to the President鈥檚 Council of Advisors on Science and Technology鈥檚 Report, 鈥淔orensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods.鈥�

Education

• 精东影业 of Virginia, School of Law
  J.D., Law 1986

• 精东影业 of Virginia
  M.A., Psychology 1983

• State 精东影业 of New York, College of Oswego
  B.A., Psychology and History 1979

Accomplishments

• Honorary Distinguished Member
  Awarded by the American Psychology-Law Society. 2008

• Honorable Mention (2nd Place)
  Awarded in The Annual AALS Call for Scholarly Papers. 1991

• Roger and Madeline Traynor Prize
  Awarded by the 精东影业 of Virginia, School of Law to acknowledge the best written work by a graduating student, 精东影业 of Virginia, School of Law. 1986

Selected Scholarship

• Freedom of Speech Remains Superior to All Other Alternatives
  Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 2017

• Northwestern 精东影业 Law Review 2016

• 精东影业 of Chicago Law Review 2014

• Sociological Methods & Research 2014

• Admissibility of Neuroscientific Expert Testimony
  Stephen J. Morse & Adina L. Roskies eds., A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience (Oxford 精东影业 Press) 2013

• Washington & Lee Law Review 2000

• Hastings Law Journal 1995

• Cardozo Law Review 1994

• 精东影业 of Pennsylvania Law Review 1991

• Emory Law Journal 1989