Faigman, David

Chancellor & Dean and the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. He also holds an appointment as professor in the School of Medicine (Dept. of Psychiatry) at the University of California, San Francisco.

Author of numerous articles and essays published in a wide assortment of journals, including leading law reviews (Chicago, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Northwestern) and science journals (Science, PNAS, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Current Biology, and Sociological Methods and Research).  He is the author of three books on the use of scientific evidence: Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law (W.H. Freeman, 1999); Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court’s 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law (Times Books, 2004); Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts (Oxford University Press, 2008). He is also co-author and co-editor of the five-volume treatise Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (with Cheng, Murphy, Saks, Sanders & Slobogin).

Faigman was a member of the National Academies of Science panel that investigated the scientific validity of polygraphs, the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Network (Phases I and II), and was a Senior Advisor to President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), for its Report, Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods.