School of Law, University of Virginia, 580 Massie Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.
Law Hum Behav. 2011 Feb;35(1):72-82. doi: 10.1007/s10979-009-9214-8.
In this essay, we take the publication of the seventh edition of the casebook Social Science in Law (2010) as an opportunity to reflect on continuities and changes that have occurred in the application of social science research to American law over the past quarter-century. We structure these reflections by comparing and contrasting the original edition of the book with the current one. When the first edition appeared, courts' reliance on social science was often confused and always contested. Now, courts' reliance on social science is so common as to be unremarkable. What has changed--sometimes radically--are the substantive legal questions on which social science has been brought to bear.
在这篇文章中，我们以《法律中的社会科学案例集》（第七版，2010 年）的出版为契机，反思过去四分之一个世纪里，社会科学研究在美国法律中的应用所发生的连续性和变化。我们通过比较本书的原始版本和当前版本来组织这些反思。第一版问世时，法院对社会科学的依赖常常令人困惑，而且总是存在争议。现在，法院对社会科学的依赖已经如此普遍，以至于毫不引人注目。发生变化的是——有时是根本性的变化——社会科学被应用的实质性法律问题。
