ABSTRACT
Recent years have witnessed the publication of numerous books and articles about the interactions between law and science, as well as treatises aimed at educating lawyers with specialized practices in the details of pertinent particular technologies. This chapter provides an introduction to the institutional and library resources in the law-science overlap area that increasingly are becoming available. Science and technology simply have "progressed" too far beyond their 1836 boundaries. Today, even a trained scientist often is barely more knowledgeable than a layman about the almost innumerably proliferated specialized scientific and technological areas outside the scientist's own specialty. The best way to gain a non-trivial understanding of science is to be a scientist. In general, US judges are attorneys, who come to their judgeships from the practicing bar or from law school professorships.
