ABSTRACT
The past two decades have seen notable growth in the connecting links between science—or science and technology—and the law. It is small wonder that such intersections of science and the law—on the massive scale that the United States legal system has not only permitted, but encouraged—compel these disciplines to become far better acquainted. An influential factor has been the emergence of serious and widespread environmental concerns not only in the United States, but throughout much of the rest of the world. Still another influential factor has been the rapid proliferation of regulatory agencies, both federal and state, to which have been delegated substantial responsibilities in fields where scientific and technical data will often be crucial. The final influential factor the author mentions is of a more general nature. It is the settling in of the computer age. Like other segments of society, lawyers and law students and judges and court administrators are becoming immersed in computerization.
