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The interdiscipline of science and technology studies ('STS') has been characterized by its descriptive analyses of the presumptions and practices of scientific communities, and by numerous theoretical internal debates over the proper framework of analysis of science. While STS has not been characterized by a powerful effect on law and government, both of which are consumers of scientific expertise, an opportunity arises for engagement in public policy disputes due to the willful ignorance regarding science in the Trump administration, and the negative effects of political agendas and conflicts of interest therein. The urgent need for reliable expertise in such political contexts is addressed in the so-called third wave of STS that is based on Harry Collins and Rob Evans's innovative 'architecture of expertise.' Two recent book chapters, namely Darrin Durant's essay on ignoring experts and Martin Weinel's essay on counterfeit scientific controversies, serve as practical examples of third-wave theory. Bruno Latour, who was engaged in a debate with Collins (and others in STS) concerning their respective approaches during the 1990s, also recently addressed the need for expertise (particularly climate expertise) in government contexts. Nowadays, Collins and Latour both promote consensus expertise and identify its reliance (for its authority) on science as a trusted institution. This article compares the similarities (and acknowledges the differences) between Collins and Latour with respect to their pragmatic strategies, and concludes that notwithstanding internal debates, STS scholars should join Collins (with Evans) and Latour to look outward toward critique and correction of governments that ignore scientific expertise.

Since 1993, Supreme Court precedent has asked judges to serve as gatekeepers to their expert witnesses, admitting only reliable scientific testimony. Lacking a strong background in science, however, some judges admit dubious scientific testimony packages by articulate practitioners, while others reject reliable evidence that is unreasonably portrayed as full of holes. Seeking a balance between undue deference and undeserved skepticism, Caudill and LaRue draw on the philosophy of science to help judges, juries, and advocates better understand its goals and limitations

Chapter 1. Introduction - Part One: Law and Policy Studies in Expertise - Introduction to Part One -- Chapter 2. Twenty-Five Years of Opposing Trends: The Demystification of Science in Law, and the Waning Relativism in the Sociology of Science -- Chapter 3. Ignoring Experts -- Chapter 4. Recognizing Counterfeit Scientific Controversies in Science Policy Contexts: A Criteria-Based Approach -- Chapter 5. Judging Social Work Expertise in Care Proceedings -- Chapter 6. Geographical Expertise: From Places to Processes and Back Again -- Part Two: Imitation Games -- Chapter 7. Bonfire Night and Burns Night: Using the Imitation Game to Research English and Scottish Identities -- Chapter 8. How (Well) Do Media Professionals Know Their Audiences? S.E.E. Meets Media Studies -- Chapter 9. East German Identity: A Never-Ending Story? -- Chapter 10. The Game With Identities: Identifications and Categorization as Social Practice -- Part Three: Interactional Expertise -- Chapter 11. The Test of Ubiquitous Through Real or Interactional Expertise (TURINEX) and Veganism as Expertise -- Chapter 12. Why They've Immersed: A Framework for Understanding and Attending to Motivational Differences Among Interactional Experts -- Chapter 13. Developing a Theoretical Scaffolding for Interactional Competence: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation into Competence versus Expertise -- Chapter 14. Collaboration Among Apparently Incommensurable Expertises: A Case Study of Combining Expertises and Perspectives to Manage Climate Change in Coastal Viginia -- Part Four: Conceptual and Theoretical Developments -- Chapter 15. Trading Zones Revisited -- Chater 16. Interactional Expertise as Primer of Abstract Thought -- Chapter 17. A Scientific Research Program at the U.S.-Mexico Borderland Region: The Search for the Recipe of Maya Blue -- Chapter 18. Conclusion

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. From the Conseil d'État to Gaia: Bruno Latour on Law, Surfaces and Depth -- 2. Politics and Law as Latourian Modes of Existence -- 3. On Devices and Logics of Legal Sense: Toward Socio-technical Legal Analysis -- 4. 'The Crown Wears Many Hats': Canadian Aboriginal Law and the Black-boxing of Empire -- 5. Providing the Missing Link: Law after Latour's Passage -- 6. The Life and Deaths of a Dispute: An Inquiry into Matters of Law -- 7. Plasma! Notes on Bruno Latour's Metaphysics of Law -- 8. The Conditions of a Good Judgment: From Law to Internal Affairs Police Investigations -- 9. In The Name of the Law: Ventriloquism and Juridical Matters -- 10. Laboratory Life and the Economics of Science in Law -- 11. Bartleby, Barbarians and the Legality of Literature -- 12. The Strange Entanglement of Jurimorphs -- List of Contributors -- Index

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