Edward K. Cheng

Hess Chair in Law

Ed Cheng's research focuses on evidence (especially expert evidence), law and statistics, and damages. Professor Cheng is a co-author of Modern Scientific Evidence, a five-volume treatise, and is the host of Excited Utterance, a long-running podcast focusing on scholarship in evidence and proof. His articles have been published in the Journal of Legal Studies, Yale Law Journal and Stanford Law Review, among other prestigious law journals. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Columbia University. Cheng teaches Evidence, Torts and a seminar on Scientific Evidence. He is a nine-time winner of the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award for excellence in teaching, and was selected by the graduating classes of 2013, 2017 and 2022 to be their commencement speaker. Cheng has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Representative Publications

• Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony, Thomson West (5 volumes, 2021-22 edition) (with David Faigman, Jennifer Mnookin, Erin Murphy, Joseph Sanders and Christopher Slobogin)
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• "Sequencing in Damages," 74 Stanford Law Review 353 (2022) (with Ehud Guttel and Yuval Procaccia)
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• "The Consensus Rule: A New Approach to Scientific Evidence," 75 Vanderbilt Law Review 407 (2022)
• "Distributing Attorneys’ Fees in Mass Litigation," 12 Journal of Legal Analysis 558 (2021) (with Paul Edelman and Brian Fitzpatrick)
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• "Beyond the Witness: Bringing a Process Perspective to Modern Evidence Law," 97 Texas Law Review 1077 (2019) (with Alex Nunn)
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• "Detection and Correction of Case Publication Bias," 47 Journal of Legal Studies 151 (2018)
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• "Reconceptualizing the Burden of Proof," 122 Yale Law Journal 1254 (2013)
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• "When 10 Trials Are Better Than 1000: An Evidentiary Perspective on Trial Sampling," 160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 955 (2012)
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• "A Practical Solution to the Reference Class Problem," 109 Columbia Law Review 2081 (2009)
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• "Does Frye or Daubert Matter?: A Study of Scientific Admissibility Standards," 91 Virginia Law Review 471 (2005) (with Albert Yoon)
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