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Ed Cheng is the Hess Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School. His scholarship focuses on evidence, expert evidence, the interaction between law and statistics, and more recently, damages. He is co-author of the five-volume treatise Modern Scientific Evidence (with Faigman, Mnookin, Murphy, Sanders, and Slobogin).
Edward K. Cheng is the Hess Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School. His scholarship focuses on scientific and expert evidence, and the interaction of law and statistics. He teaches evidence, torts, and a seminar on scientific evidence. Outside of law, Ed enjoys rock climbing, soccer, and native plan
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Edward K. Cheng is the Hess Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School. His scholarship focuses on scientific and expert evidence, and the interaction of law and statistics. He teaches evidence, torts, and a seminar on scientific evidence. Outside of law, Ed enjoys rock climbing, soccer, and native plant gardening.
May 20, 2010 · Professor Cheng has been appointed professor of law. He joins Vanderbilt’s law faculty from Brooklyn Law School, where he was a professor of law. His research focuses on scientific and expert evidence, and the interaction between law and statistics.
Edward K. Cheng* Founded on good intentions but unrealistic expectations, the dominant Daubert framework for handling expert and scientific evidence should be scrapped. Daubert asks judges and jurors to make substantively expert determinations, a task they are epistemically incompetent to perform as laypersons.
Dec 17, 2014 · Cheng defines legal numeracy as “the ability to comprehend, critically assess and explain” the studies upon which statistical evidence is based, and he highlights a compelling reason for lawyers to avoid bland acceptance of innumeracy: Math errors are all too common in legal cases.
EDWARD K. CHENG. Vanderbilt University Law School. 131 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203. edward.cheng@vanderbilt.edu. 615-875-7630. APPOINTMENTS. Vanderbilt University Law School Hess Chair in Law, 2018-present Professor of Law, 2010-present FedEx Research Professor, 2017-18 Tarkington Chair in Teaching Excellence, 2013-2016 .
