The last few decades have seen a dramatic shift in the admissibility of expert testimony in American courtrooms from a laissez-faire approach to a strict standard for admissibility, often called the Daubert test. The implicit rationale behind such a stringent standard for admissibility is the...

We provide a simple framework in which the level of adversarial bias is endogenously determined in a litigation process. Using this model, we study the effect of using a court-appointed expert on the level of adversarial bias and the average error rates, and find an interesting trade-off:...

Concerned about evidence distortion arising from litigants' strong incentive to misrepresent information to fact-finders, legal scholars and commentators have long suggested that the court appoint its own advisor for a neutral piece of information about the dispute. This paper studies the...