B.S., Florida International University
M.S., University of Miami
J.D., University of Miami School of Law
J.S.D., LL.M., Columbia Law School

Professor Erica Beecher-Monas taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law from1996 until 2005. Her areas of expertise include corporations and evidence. She has been a visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law and at the University of Miami School of Law.

Her work includes articles on the Enron case and on law and science. Her current work-in-progress is Heuristics and Biases: Evaluating Validity in Behavioral Decision Theory. She has presented papers at conferences across the United States, in Canada, Hungary, and in Austria.

Beecher-Monas received her undergraduate degree in biology from Florida International University, and a Master of Science degree in Anatomy and Biochemistry from the University of Miami. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Law (1988) and earned an LL.M. in 1995 and J.S.D. in 2001, both from Columbia School of Law. Prior to beginning her teaching career, she worked as a litigation associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York City.

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  Evaluating Scientific Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Intellectual Due Process (Cambridge University Press, 1st edition) November 30, 2006 Paperback: 272 pages, ISBN: 052167655X
  
  

  Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Yet the mechanisms for evaluating scientific evidence are often less than ideal. Evaluating Scientific Evidence explores the question of what counts as scientific knowledge, a question that has become a focus of heated courtroom and scholarly debate, not only in the United States, but in other common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

Teaching Genomics & Law by Exploring Genetic Predictions of Future Dangerousness: Is there a Blueprint for Violence? (book chapter, THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT IN COLLEGE CURRICULUM: ETHICAL ISSUES AND PRACTICAL STRATEGIES (Aine Donovan & Ronald M. Green, eds., forthcoming University Press New England 2008)

Marrying Diversity and Independence in the Boardroom: Just How Far Have You Come, Baby? ORE. L. REV. (forthcoming 2007)

Genetic Predictions of Future Dangerousness: Is there a Blueprint for Violence? (With Edgar Garcia-Rill), 69 J. L. & CONTEMP. PROB. 301(2006)

Corporate Governance in the Wake of Enron: An Examination of the Audit Committee Solution to Corporate Fraud, 55 ADMIN. L. REV. 357 (2003)

Danger at the Edge of Chaos: Predicting Violent Behavior in a Post-Daubert World, 24 CARDOZO L. REV.1845 (2003) (with Edgar Garcia-Rill, Ph.D.,University of Arkansas Medical Sciences)

The Epistemology of Prediction: Future Dangerousness Testimony and Intellectual Due Process, 60 WASH. & LEE 353 (2003)

Enron, Epistemology, and Accountability: Regulating in a Global Economy, 37 IN. L. REV. 141 (2003)

Heuristics, Biases, and the Importance of Gatekeeping, 2003 MICH. ST. L. REV. 987 (symposium)

Pandora’s Box, 23 CARDOZO L. REV.1811 (2002) (essay in reply to review by David Caudill)

Domestic Violence: Competing Conceptions of Equality in the Law of Evidence, 47 LOYOLA L. REV. 81 (2001) (symposium)

Gatekeeping Stress: The Science and Admissibility of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (with Edgar Garcia-Rill, Ph.D), 24 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 9 (2001)

The Heuristics of Intellectual Due Process: A Primer for Triers of Science, 75 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1563 (2000)

The Law and the Brain: Judging Scientific Evidence of Intent (with Edgar Garcia-Rill, Ph.D.), 1 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS  243 (1999)

A Ray of Light For Judges Blinded by Science: Triers of Science and Intellectual Due Process, 33 GA. L. REV. 1047 (1999)

Blinded by Science: How Judges Avoid the Science in Scientific Evidence, 71 TEMPLE L. REV. 55 (1998)

Comment, The Seventh Amendment Right to Jury Trial in Civil Penalties Actions: A Post-Tull Examination of the Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984, 43 U. MIAMI L. REV. 361 (1988)

Note, United States v. Tull: The Right to Jury Trial Under the Clean Water Act, 41 U. MIAMI L. REV. 665 (1987)