This method provides a more detailed quantitative analysis of the findings of Kalven and Zeisel that juries tend to be more lenient than judges in criminal cases. Since similar studies are ongoing, we present an alternative study design that is less dependent on assumptions required by the original diagnostic test protocol. Scientific advances in paternity testing have prompted the American legal system to adopt these technologies for courtroom use by means of state statutes. This Note surveys the current statutory scheme regarding the admissibility of scientific paternity tests in the fifty states and the District of Columbia. Variations and ambiguities among the states' statutes are explored, and the progress made in the scheme is noted.
Tables summarizing the state statutory provisions follow the text.
The past three decades have witnessed a virtual revolution in rape law in the United States. This article summarizes the criticisms of traditional rape law and discusses the rape reform movement, focusing on the four most common reforms and their predicted effects. This article discusses rape from a biological perspective and dispels some myths about what that perspective is, and what it entails. It emphasizes that evolution applies to rape, just as it does to any feature of life. How exactly evolution applies is unclear, but various hypotheses are presented and evaluated.