In their role as "gatekeepers," the courts are often faced with the issue of assessing the reliability of complex expert testimony in a variety of disciplines. In the area of finance and economics, two recent federal decisions concluded that the "S-curve" approach, which has been described as a...

This Article proceeds in six parts. Part I is an introduction to the issue of manipulation in political prediction markets. Part II offers a brief background to prediction markets generally. Part III catalogues five examples of activity considered manipulative in political prediction markets,...

To their credit, empirical legal scholars try to live up to the highest methodological standards from the social sciences. But these standards do not always match the legal research question. This paper focuses on normative legal argument based on empirical evidence. Whether there is a normative...