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Professor Gary Edmond

Professor Gary Edmond

Professor

BA(Hons)(Medal) University of Wollongong, LLB(Hons) University of Sydney, PhD University of Cambridge

Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Gary Edmond is a law professor in the School of Law at the University of New South Wales, where he directs the Program in Expertise, Evidence and Law. Originally trained in the history and philosophy of science, he subsequently studied law at the University of Sydney and took a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge. An active commentator on expert evidence in Australia, England, the US and Canada, he is a member of the Council of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, a member of Standards Australia’s forensic science committee, a member of the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and served as an international adviser to the Goudge Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario (2007-2008). He is Chair of the Evidence-based forensics initiative (EBFI) and is co-author of Australian Evidence: A principled approach to the common law and the uniform acts (6th ed. LexisNexis, 2017).

Areas of expertise:
Expert evidence, Forensic science, Law and science, Law and society, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Public understanding of law, Empirical legal studies
Phone
+61 2 9385 2229
E-mail
g.edmond@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room: 234 The Law Building University of New South Wales UNSW Kensington Campus Sydney NSW 2052 Australia (Access via Gate 2 off High Street)
  • Books | 2021
    Hunter J; Metzger J; Henning T; Edmond G; McMahon R; San Roque M; Cockburn H, 2021, The Trial: Principles, Process and Evidence, Federation Press, Sydney
    Books | 2017
    Ligertwood A; Edmond G, 2017, Australian Evidence: A Principled Approach to the Common Law and Uniform Acts, 6th edition, LexisNexis, Sydney,
    Books | 2015
    Hunter J; Metzger J; Henning T; Edmond G; McMahon R; San Roque M, 2015, The Trial: Principles, Process and Evidence, Federation Press, Sydney,
    Books | 2011
    Edmond G, 2011, Preface
    Books | 2010
    Edmond G; Ligertwood , 2010, Australian Evidence: A Principled Approach to the Common Law and the Uniform Acts, 5th, Butterworths, Sydney
    Books | 2004
    , 2004, Expertise in Regulation and Law, Edmond G, (ed.), Ashgate, Aldershot
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Edmond G; Cole SA, 2022, 'Legal Aspects of Forensic Science', in Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences: Volume 1-4, Third Edition, pp. 424 - 430,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Edmond G, 2022, 'Fingerprint Evidence and the Limits of Adversarialism in England, Australia and New Zealand', in Ferrer Beltran J; Vazquez C (ed.), Evidential Legal Reasoning Crossing Civil Law and Common Law Traditions, Cambridge University Press, pp. 248 - 295,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Kemp RI; Edmond G; White D, 2021, 'A Proposed Solution to the Problem of Identifying People From CCTV and Other Images', in Methods, Measures, and Theories in Eyewitness Identification Tasks, Routledge, pp. 13 - 33,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Kemp RI; Edmond G; White D, 2021, 'A proposed solution to the problem of identifying people from CCTV and other images', in Smith AM; Toglia MP; Lampinen JM (ed.), Methods, Measures, and Theories in Eyewitness Identification Tasks, Routledge, pp. 13 - 33,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Martire KA; Edmond G, 2020, 'How Well Do Lay People Comprehend Statistical Statements from Forensic Scientists?', in Handbook of Forensic Statistics, Taylor & Francis, pp. 201 - 224,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Edmond G, 2019, 'Forensic Science Evidence, Adversarial Criminal Proceedings and Mainstream Scientific', in Brown D; Turner I; Weisser B (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process, Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Edmond G, 2018, 'Re-assessing reliability', in Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony: Reliability through Reform?, pp. 71 - 105,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Edmond G, 2018, 'Re-assessing reliability', in Roberts P; Stockdale M (ed.), Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony: Reliability through Reform, E. Elgar, London, pp. 71 - 105,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Edmond G; Cunliffe E, 2017, 'What have we learned? Lessons from Wrongful Convictions in Canada', in Berger B; Cunliffe E; Stribopoulos J (ed.), To Ensure that Justice is Done: Essays in Memory of Marc Rosenberg, Thomson Reuters, Toronto
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Edmond G; Kemp R; Porter G; Hamer D; Burton M; Biber K; Roque MS, 2017, 'Atkins v The Emperor, the ‘cautious’ use of unreliable ‘expert’ opinion', in Expert Evidence and Scientific Proof in Criminal Trials, Routledge, pp. 303 - 323,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Edmond G; Martire KA, 2017, 'Knowing experts? Section 79, forensic science evidence and the limits of 'training, study or experience', in Roberts A; Gans J (ed.), Critical Perspectives on the Uniform Evidence Law, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 80 - 80
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Edmond G, 2016, 'Expert evidence and the professional responsibilities of prosecutors’', in Roberts P; Hunter J; Dixon D; Young SNM (ed.), The Integrity of Criminal Process From Theory into Practice, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 225 - 246
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Edmond E, 2015, 'Opinions About Expert Evidence under the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW)', in Kumar M; Legg M (ed.), Ten Years of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), Thomson Reuters, pp. 143 - 157,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Edmond G; Davis J; Wilson T, 2015, 'Expert analysis: Facial Mapping', in Davis J; Wilson T (ed.), Forensic Facial Identification Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 239 - 267,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Edmond G; Davis JP; Valentine T, 2015, 'Expert Analysis: Facial Image Comparison', in Valentine T; Davis JP (ed.), Forensic Facial Identification: Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV, JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD, pp. 239 - 262,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Edmond G, 2015, 'Opinion evidence', in The Trial: Principles, Process and Evidence, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 558 - 603,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Edmond G; Cole SA, 2014, 'Identification Technologies in Policing and Proof', in Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Springer New York, pp. 2407 - 2419,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Edmond G; Cole SA, 2013, 'Legal Aspects of Forensic Science', in Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences: Second Edition, pp. 466 - 470,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Edmond G, 2011, 'Bacon’s Chickens – Re-thinking Law and Science (and Incriminating Expert Opinion Evidence) in Response to Empirical Evidence and Legal Principle', in Gleeson J; Higgins R (ed.), Constituting law: Legal argument and social values, edn. Original, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 137 - 152,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Edmond G, 2011, 'Cultural Expertise and Litigation Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives Preface', in Holden L (ed.), CULTURAL EXPERTISE AND LITIGATION: PATTERNS, CONFLICTS, NARRATIVES, ROUTLEDGE, pp. XIX - XXV,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Edmond G, 2011, 'Preface', in Cultural Expertise and Litigation, Taylor and Francis, pp. xix - xxv,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Edmond G; Hamer D, 2010, 'Evidence Law', in Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Edmond G; Hamer D, 2010, 'Evidence Law', in Kritzer H; Cane P (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 652 - 678,
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Edmond G, 2008, 'Pathological Science? Demonstrable Reliability and Expert Pathology Evidence', in Roach K (ed.), Pediatric Forensic Pathology and the Justice System, edn. Original, Queen's Printer for Ontario, Toronto, pp. 96 - 149
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 2004, 'Experts and Expertise in Legal and Regulatory Settings', in Expertise in Regulation and Law, edn. 1, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 1 - 31
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 2004, 'The Invisible Branch', in Expertise in Regulation and Law, edn. 1, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 197 - 241
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Edmond G, 2004, 'Judging Facts', in Expertise in Regulation and Law, edn. 1, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 136 - 165
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 2002, 'Rebels without a cause: Judges, scientific evidence and the uses of causation', in Freckelton I; Mendelson D (ed.), Causation & Law in Medicine, edn. Original, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, UK, pp. 61 - 83
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Bali AS; Basu N; Weber P; Rosas-Aguilar C; Edmond G; Martire KA; Morrison GS, 2024, 'Speaker identification in courtroom contexts – Part III: Groups of collaborating listeners compared to forensic voice comparison based on automatic-speaker-recognition technology', Forensic Science International, 360,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Edmond G; Wortley N, 2024, 'Images, Investigators, Identification, Code D and the Court of Appeal', Journal of Criminal Law, 88, pp. 130 - 161,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Edmond G, 2024, 'Trial by Cognitive Ordeal: Irrational Approaches to the Opinions of Investigators, Trial Integrity and Proof', Modern Law Review, 87, pp. 535 - 569,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Martire KA; Chin JM; Davis C; Edmond G; Growns B; Gorski S; Kemp RI; Lee Z; Verdon CM; Jansen G; Lang T; Neal TMS; Searston RA; Slocum J; Summersby S; Tangen JM; Thompson MB; Towler A; Watson D; Werrett MV; Younan M; Ballantyne KN, 2024, 'Understanding ‘error’ in the forensic sciences: A primer', Forensic Science International: Synergy, 8,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Summersby S; Edmond G; Kemp RI; Ballantyne KN; Martire KA, 2024, 'The effect of following best practice reporting recommendations on legal and community evaluations of forensic examiners reports', Forensic Science International, 359,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Basu N; Weber P; Bali AS; Rosas-Aguilar C; Edmond G; Martire KA; Morrison GS, 2023, 'Speaker identification in courtroom contexts – Part II: Investigation of bias in individual listeners’ responses', Forensic Science International, 349,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Edmond G; Chin JM; Martire KA; San Roque M, 2023, 'A WARNING ABOUT JUDICIAL DIRECTIONS AND WARNINGS', Adelaide Law Review, 44, pp. 194 - 245
    Journal articles | 2022
    Basu N; Bali AS; Weber P; Rosas-Aguilar C; Edmond G; Martire KA; Morrison GS, 2022, 'Speaker identification in courtroom contexts – Part I: Individual listeners compared to forensic voice comparison based on automatic-speaker-recognition technology', Forensic Science International, 341,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Chin JM; Edmond G; Roberts A, 2022, 'Simply Unconvincing: The High Court on Probative Value and Reliability in the Uniform Evidence Law', Federal Law Review, 50, pp. 104 - 127,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Edmond G, 2022, 'Against Jury Comparisons', AUSTRALIAN LAW JOURNAL, 96, pp. 315 - 346,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Edmond G, 2022, 'Latent justice? A review of adversarial challenges to fingerprint evidence', Science and Justice, 62, pp. 21 - 29,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Stevenson C; Kramer K; Edmond G; Martire K, 2022, 'Reliability and validity of a quality tool for assessing clinical forensic medicine legal reports', Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 89,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Bali AS; Edmond G; Ballantyne KN; Kemp RI; Martire KA, 2021, 'Corrigendum to “Communicating forensic science opinion: An examination of expert reporting practices” [Sci. Justice 60 (3) (2020) 216–224] (Science & Justice (2020) 60(3) (216–224), (S1355030619302102), (10.1016/j.scijus.2019.12.005))', Science and Justice, 61, pp. 449 - 450,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Bali AS; Martire KA; Edmond G, 2021, 'Lay Comprehension of Statistical Evidence: A Novel Measurement Approach', Law and Human Behavior, 45, pp. 370 - 390,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Cunliffe E; Edmond G, 2021, 'Justice without science? Judging the reliability of forensic science in Canada', The Canadian bar review, 99, pp. 65 - 65
    Journal articles | 2021
    Edmond G; White D; Towler A; San Roque M; Kemp R, 2021, 'FACIAL RECOGNITION AND IMAGE COMPARISON EVIDENCE: IDENTIFICATION BY INVESTIGATORS, FAMILIARS, EXPERTS, SUPER RECOGNISERS AND ALGORITHMS', Melbourne University Law Review, 45, pp. 99 - 160,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Morrison GS; Neumann C; Geoghegan PH; Edmond G; Grant T; Ostrum RB; Roberts P; Saks M; Syndercombe Court D; Thompson WC; Zabell S, 2021, 'Reply to Response to Vacuous standards – Subversion of the OSAC standards-development process', Forensic Science International: Synergy, 3,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Ritchie KL; Cartledge C; Growns B; Yan A; Wang Y; Guo K; Kramer RSS; Edmond G; Martire KA; Roque MS; White D; San Roque M, 2021, 'Public attitudes towards the use of automatic facial recognition technology in criminal justice systems around the world', PLoS ONE, 16, pp. e0258241,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Bali AS; Edmond G; Ballantyne KN; Kemp RI; Martire KA, 2020, 'Communicating forensic science opinion: An examination of expert reporting practices', Science and Justice, 60, pp. 216 - 224,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Chin JM; McFadden R; Edmond G, 2020, 'Forensic science needs registered reports', Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2, pp. 41 - 45,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Edmond G; Cunliffe E; Hamer D, 2020, 'Fingerprint Comparison and Adversarialism: The Scientific and Historical Evidence', Modern Law Review, 83, pp. 1287 - 1327,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Edmond G, 2020, 'Fingerprint evidence in New Zealand Courts: The oversight of overstatement', New Zealand Universities Law Review, 29, pp. 1 - 29
    Journal articles | 2020
    Edmond G, 2020, 'Forensic science and the myth of adversarial testing', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 32, pp. 146 - 179,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Edmond G, 2020, 'Regulating forensic science and medicine evidence at trial: It’s time for a wall, a gate and some gatekeeping', Australian Law Journal, 94, pp. 427 - 438,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Martire KA; Edmond G; Navarro D, 2020, 'Exploring juror evaluations of expert opinions using the Expert Persuasion Expectancy framework', Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25, pp. 90 - 110,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Robson SG; Searston RA; Edmond G; McCarthy DJ; Tangen JM, 2020, 'An expert–novice comparison of feature choice', Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, pp. 984 - 995,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Edmond G; Cunliffe E; Martire K; San Roque M, 2019, 'Forensic Science Evidence and the Limits of Cross-Examination', Melbourne University Law Review, 42, pp. 858 - 920,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Edmond G; Martire KA, 2019, 'Just cognition: Scientific research on bias and some implications for legal procedure and decision-making', Modern Law Review, 82, pp. 633 - 664,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Edmond G, 2019, 'Latent science: A history of Australian Fingerprint evidence in Australia', University of Queensland Law Journal, 38, pp. 301 - 365,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Hamer D; Edmond G, 2019, 'Forensic science evidence, wrongful convictions and adversarial process', University of Queensland Law Journal, 38, pp. 185 - 236
    Journal articles | 2019
    Martire KA; Ballantyne KN; Bali A; Edmond G; Kemp RI; Found B, 2019, 'Forensic science evidence: Naive estimates of false positive error rates and reliability', Forensic Science International, 302, pp. 109877,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Edmond G; Hibbert DB, 2018, 'Calibrating the Scales of Justice: Inferences on Prohibited Drug Manufacture', CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, 42, pp. 208 - 233,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Edmond G; Piasecki E; Carr S, 2018, 'Science Friction: Streamlined Forensic Reporting.', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 38, pp. 764 - 792,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Edmond G; Plenderleith Ferguson A; Ward T, 2018, 'Assessing concurrent expert evidence', Civil Justice Quarterly, 37, pp. 344 - 366,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Ballantyne KN; Edmond G; Found B, 2017, 'Peer review in forensic science', Forensic Science International, 277, pp. 66 - 76,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Cunliffe E; Edmond G, 2017, 'Reviewing wrongful convictions in Canada', The Criminal Law Quarterly, 64, pp. 473 - 486
    Journal articles | 2017
    Edmond G; Martire KA; San Roque M, 2017, 'Expert reports and the forensic sciences', UNSW Law Journal, 40, pp. 590 - 637,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Edmond G; Martire KA, 2017, 'Antipodean forensics: a comment on ANZFSS's response to PCAST', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 50, pp. 140 - 151,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Edmond G; Towler A; Growns B; Ribeiro G; Found B; White D; Ballantyne K; Searston RA; Thompson MB; Tangen JM; Kemp RI; Martire K, 2017, 'Thinking forensics: Cognitive science for forensic practitioners', Science and Justice, 57, pp. 144 - 154,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Edmond G, 2017, 'Icarus and the evidence act: Section 137, probative value and taking forensic science evidence 'at its highest'', Melbourne University Law Review, 41, pp. 106 - 154
    Journal articles | 2017
    Martire KA; Edmond G; Navarro D; Newell B, 2017, 'On the likelihood of “encapsulating all uncertainty”', Science and Justice, 57, pp. 76 - 79,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Martire KA; Edmond G, 2017, 'Rethinking expert opinion evidence', Melbourne University Law Review, 40, pp. 967 - 998
    Journal articles | 2017
    Ward T; Edmond G; Martire K; Wortley N, 2017, 'Forensic science, reliability and scientific validity: Advice from America', Criminal Law Review -London-, 5, pp. 357 - 378
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edmond G; Cunliffe E, 2016, 'Cinderella story? The social production of a forensic “science”', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 106, pp. 219 - 274
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edmond G; David Hamer ; Emma Cunliffe , 2016, 'A little ignorance is a dangerous thing: engaging with exogenous knowledge not adduced by the parties', Griffith Law Review,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edmond G; Found B; Martire K; Ballantyne K; Hamer D; Searston R; Thompson M; Cunliffe E; Kemp R; San Roque M; Tangen J; Dioso-Villa R; Ligertwood A; Hibbert D; White D; Ribeiro G; Porter G; Towler A; Roberts A; Hibbert B, 2016, 'Model forensic science', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 48, pp. 496 - 537,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edmond G; Hamer D, 2016, 'Judicial notice: beyond adversarialism and into the exogenous zone', Griffith Law Review,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edmond G; Martire KA, 2016, 'Forensic science in criminal courts: The latest scientific insights', Australian Bar Review, 42
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edmond G; Wortley N, 2016, 'Interpreting image evidence: Facial mapping, police familiars and super-recognisers in England and Australia', Journal of International and Comparative Law, 3, pp. 473 - 522
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edmond G, 2016, 'Legal versus non-legal approaches to forensic science evidence', The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, 20, pp. 3 - 28,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Edmond G; Cole SA, 2015, 'Science Without Precedent: The Impact of the National Research Council Report on the Admissibility and Use of Forensic Science Evidence In the United States', British Journal of American Legal Studies, 4, pp. 585 - 617
    Journal articles | 2015
    Edmond G, 2015, 'A Closer Look at Honeysett: Enhancing our Forensic Science and Medicine Jurisprudence', Flinders Law Journal, 17, pp. 287 - 330
    Journal articles | 2015
    Edmond G, 2015, 'AGAINST ORACULAR PRONOUNCEMENT: A REPLY TO HEYDON', ADELAIDE LAW REVIEW, 36, pp. 173 - 178,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Edmond G, 2015, 'Forensic science evidence and the conditions for rational (Jury) evaluation', Melbourne University Law Review, 39, pp. 77 - 127
    Journal articles | 2015
    Edmond G, 2015, 'What Lawyers Should Know about the Forensic Sciences', Adelaide Law Review, 36, pp. 33 - 100,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G; Cunliffe E, 2014, 'Gaitkeeping in Canada: Mis-steps in assessing the reliability of expert testimony', Canadian Bar Review, 92, pp. 327 - 368
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G; Martire KA; Kemp RI; Hamer D; Hibbert B; Ligertwood A; Porter G; San Roque M; Searston R; Tangen J; Thompson M; White D, 2014, 'How to cross-examine forensic scientists: A guide for lawyers', Australian Bar Review, 39, pp. 174 - 197,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G; San Roque M, 2014, 'Honeysett v The Queen: Forensic Science, ‘Specialised Knowledge’ and the Uniform Evidence Law', The Sydney Law Review, 36, pp. 323 - 344,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G; Tangen JM; Searston RA; Dror IE, 2014, 'Contextual bias and cross-contamination in the forensic sciences: The corrosive implications for investigations, plea bargains, trials and appeals', Law, Probability and Risk, 14, pp. 1 - 25,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G; Vuille J, 2014, 'Comparing the Use of Forensic Science Evidence in Australia, Switzerland, and the United States: Transcending the Adversarial-Non adversarial Dichotomy', Jurimetrics: journal of law, science and technology, 54, pp. 221 - 276
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G; san roque ; Hamer D; Ligertwood A, 2014, 'Christie, section 137 and forensic science evidence (after Dupas v The Queen and R v XY)', Monash University Law Review, 40, pp. 389 - 412
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G, 2014, 'Blind justice? Forensic science and the use of closed circuit television images as identification evidence in South Africa', The South African Law Journal, 131, pp. 109 - 148,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G, 2014, 'The 'Science' of Miscarriages of Justice', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 37, pp. 376 - 406,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Edmond G, 2014, 'The admissibility of forensic science and medicine evidence under the Uniform Evidence Law', Criminal Law Journal, 38, pp. 136 - 158,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Edmond G; San Roque M; Cole S; Kemp R; Martire KA; Porter G; Tangen J, 2013, 'Justicia's Gaze: Surveillance, evidence and the criminal trial', Surveillance and Society, 11, pp. 252 - 271
    Journal articles | 2013
    Edmond G; Thompson MB; Tangen JM, 2013, 'A guide to interpreting forensic testimony: Scientific approaches to fingerprint evidence', Law, Probability and Risk, 13, pp. 1 - 25,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Edmond G, 2013, '(Ad)Ministering Justice: Expert Evidence and the Professional Responsibilities of Prosecutors', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 36, pp. 921 - 953
    Journal articles | 2013
    Edmond G, 2013, 'Expert evidence in reports and courts', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 45, pp. 248 - 262,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Edmond G, 2013, 'Just truth? Carefully applying history, philosophy and sociology of science to the forensic use of CCTV images', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44, pp. 80 - 91,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Edmond G, 2013, 'Trial by Theory: A Response to Acharya's. Law's Treatment of Science: From Idealization to Understandin', Dalhousie Law Journal, 36, pp. 57 - 91,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Edmond G; Found B, 2012, 'Reporting on the comparison and interpretation of pattern evidence: recommendations for forensic specialists', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 44, pp. 1 - 4,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Edmond G, 2012, 'Advice for the courts: A multidisciplinary advisory panel?', International Journal of Evidence & Proof, 16, pp. 263 - 297
    Journal articles | 2012
    Edmond G, 2012, 'Is reliability sufficient? The Law Commission and expert evidence in international and interdisciplinary perspective (Part1)', International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 16, pp. 30 - 65,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Ligertwood A; Edmond G, 2012, 'Discussion paper: A just measure of probability', Law, Probability and Risk, 11, pp. 365 - 369,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Ligertwood A; Edmond G, 2012, 'Expressing evaluative forensic science opinions in a court of law', Law, Probability and Risk, 11, pp. 289 - 302,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edmond G; Martire KA; San Roque M, 2011, ''Mere guesswork': Cross-lingual voice comparisons and the jury', Sydney Law Review, 33, pp. 395 - 425,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edmond G; Roach K, 2011, 'A Contextual Approach to the Admissibility of the State's Forensic Science and Medical Evidence', University of Toronto Law Journal, 61, pp. 343 - 409,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edmond G; Roberts A, 2011, 'Procedural fairness, the criminal trial and forensic science and medicine', Sydney Law Review, 33, pp. 359 - 394,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edmond G; Roberts AW, 2011, 'The Law Commission’s Report on Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings', Criminal Law Review, 11, pp. 844 - 862,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edmond G; San Roque M; Kristy M, 2011, 'Unsound law: Issues with ("expert") voice comparison evidence', Melbourne University Law Review, 35, pp. 52 - 112,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edmond G, 2011, 'Actual innocents? Legal limitations and their implications for forensic science and medicine', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 43, pp. 177 - 212,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edmond G, 2011, 'The admissibility of incriminating expert opinion evidence in the US, England and Canada', Judicial Officers' Bulletin, 23, pp. 67 - 70,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edmond G, 2011, 'The building blocks of forensic science and law: Recent work on DNA profiling (and photo comparison)', Social Studies of Science, 41, pp. 127 - 152,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Roach ; Edmond G, 2011, 'A Contextual Approach to the Admissibility of the State’s Forensic Science and Medical Evidence', University of Toronto Law Journal, 61, pp. 343 - 409,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Edmond G; Kemp RI; Hamer D; Burton M; Biber ; San Roque M, 2010, 'Atkins v The Emperor: The “Cautious” use of Unreliable “Expert” Opinion', International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 14, pp. 146 - 165,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Edmond G, 2010, 'Impartiality, efficiency or reliability? A critical response to expert evidence law and procedure in Australia', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 42, pp. 1 - 17,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Edmond G, 2010, 'Impartiality, efficiency or reliability? A critical response to expert evidence law and procedure in Australia', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 42, pp. 83 - 99,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Edmond G, 2010, 'Suspect sciences? Evidentiary Problems with Emerging Technologies', International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, 2, pp. 40 - 72,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Edmond G; Biber ; Porter G; Kemp RI, 2009, 'Law's looking glass: expert identification evidence derived from photographic and video images', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 20, pp. 337 - 377
    Journal articles | 2009
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 2009, 'Norms and Irony in the Biosciences: ameliorating critique in synthetic biology', Law and Literature, 21, pp. 445 - 493
    Journal articles | 2009
    Edmond G; San Roque M, 2009, 'Quasi-justice: Ad hoc expertise and identification evidence', Criminal Law Journal, 33, pp. 8 - 33
    Journal articles | 2009
    Edmond G, 2009, 'Merton and the hot tub: Scientific conventions and expert evidence in Australian civil procedure', Law and Contemporary Problems, 72, pp. 159 - 189
    Journal articles | 2008
    Edmond G, 2008, 'Expert Evidence', Oxford Companion to Law, pp. 436 - 437
    Journal articles | 2008
    Edmond G, 2008, 'Judging the Scientific and Medical Literature: Some Legal Implications of Changes to Biomedical Research and Publication', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 28, pp. 523 - 561
    Journal articles | 2008
    Edmond G, 2008, 'Secrets of the ¿Hot Tub¿: Expert Witnesses, Concurrent Evidence and Judge-led Law Reform in Australia', Civil Justice Quarterly, 27, pp. 51 - 82
    Journal articles | 2008
    Edmond G, 2008, 'Specialised Knowledge, the Exclusionary Discretions and Reliability: Reassessing Incriminating Expert Opinion Evidence', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 31, pp. 1 - 55
    Journal articles | 2007
    Edmond G, 2007, 'Supersizing Daubert Science for Litigation and its implications for Legal Practice and Scientific Research', Villanova Law Review, 52, pp. 857 - 924
    Journal articles | 2006
    Betts S; Goodman-Delahunty J; Edmond G, 2006, 'Mock jurors` responses to expert medical testimony in a homicide trial', Australian Journal of Psychology, 58, pp. 19 - 19,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 2006, 'Anti-social epistemologies', Social Studies of Science, 36, pp. 843 - 853
    Journal articles | 2006
    Edmond G, 2006, 'Disorder with Law: Determining the Geographical Indication for the Coonawarra Wine Region.', Adelaide Law Review, 27, pp. 59 - 183
    Journal articles | 2005
    Edmond G, 2005, 'Judging Surveys: Experts, Empirical Evidence and Law Reform', Federal Law Review, 33, pp. 95 - 139
    Journal articles | 2005
    Edmond G, 2005, 'Judging Surveys: Experts, Empirical Evidence and Law Reform', Federal Law Review, 33, pp. 95 - 139,
    Journal articles | 2004
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 2004, 'Daubert and the exclusionary ethos: The convergence of corporate and judicial attitudes towards the admissibility of expert evidence in tort litigation', Law and Policy, 26, pp. 231 - 257
    Journal articles | 2004
    Edmond G, 2004, 'Law and the uncooked - a reply', Oceania, 75, pp. 60 - 67
    Journal articles | 2004
    Edmond G, 2004, 'Thick decisions: Expertise, Advocacy and reasonableness in the Federal Court of Australia', Oceania, 74, pp. 190 - 230
    Journal articles | 2003
    Edmond G, 2003, 'After Objectivity: Expert Evidence and Procedural Reform', Sydney Law Review, 25, pp. 131 - 163
    Journal articles | 2002
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 2002, 'Conjectures and Exhumations: Citations of history, philosophy and sociology of science in US federal courts', Law and Literature, 14, pp. 309 - 366
    Journal articles | 2002
    Edmond G, 2002, 'Constructing miscarriages of justice: Misunderstanding the role of scientific evidence in high profile criminal appeals', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 22, pp. 53 - 89
    Journal articles | 2002
    Edmond G, 2002, 'Legal Engineering', Social Studies of Science, 32, pp. 371 - 412
    Journal articles | 2002
    Edmond G, 2002, 'Legal engineering: Contested representations of law, science (and non-science) and society', Social Studies of Science, 32, pp. 371 - 412,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Edmond G, 2002, 'Whigs in Court: Historiographical Problems with Expert Evidence', Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 14, pp. 123 - 175
    Journal articles | 2001
    Edmond G, 2001, 'The Law-Set: The Legal-Scientific Production of Medical Propriety', Science, Technology & Human Values, 26, pp. 191 - 226,
    Journal articles | 2000
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 2000, 'Litigation life: Law-science knowledge construction in (Bendectin) mass toxic tort litigation', Social Studies of Science, 30, pp. 265 - 316,
    Journal articles | 2000
    Edmond G, 2000, 'Judicial Representations of Scientific Evidence', Modern Law Review, 63, pp. 216 - 251,
    Journal articles | 1999
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1999, 'Creating (public) science in the Noah's Ark case', Public Understanding of Science, 8, pp. 317 - 343,
    Journal articles | 1999
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1999, 'Juggling science: From polemic to pastiche', Social Epistemology, 13, pp. 215 - 233,
    Journal articles | 1998
    EDMOND G; MERCER D, 1998, 'Representing the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Law', Science Communication, 19, pp. 307 - 327,
    Journal articles | 1998
    Edmond G, 1998, 'The Next Step or Moonwalking? Expert Evidence, the Public Understanding of Science and the Case against Imwinkelried's Didactic Trial Procedures', The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, 2, pp. 13 - 31,
    Journal articles | 1998
    Edmond G, 1998, 'Down by Science: Context and commitment in the lay response to incriminating scientific evidence during a murder trial', Public Understanding of Science, 7, pp. 83 - 111,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1997, 'Keeping `Junk` History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science Out of the Courtroom: Problems with The Reception of Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 20, pp. 48 - 100
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1997, 'Recognising Daubert: What Judges Should Know About Falsification', Expert Evidence, pp. 29 - 42
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1997, 'Scientific Literacy and the Jury: Reconsidering Jury `Competence`', Public Understanding of Science, pp. 329 - 357
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1997, 'The Secret Life of (Mass) Torts: The `Bendectin Litigation` and the Construction of Law-Science Knowledges', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 20, pp. 666 - 706
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1997, '`Keeping `Junk` History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science out of the Courtroom`', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 20, pp. 48 - 100
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1997, '`Recognising Daubert: What Judges should know about Falsificationism`', Expert Evidence, pp. 28 - 40
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1997, '`Scientific Literacy and the Jury`', Public Understanding of Science, pp. 329 - 359
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1997, '`The Secret Life of (Mass) Torts`', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 20, pp. 666 - 706
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G, 1997, 'Beyond Good and Evil: Idea. Images of Science in the Law', Judicial Officers' Bulletin, pp. 19 - 60
    Journal articles | 1997
    Edmond G, 1997, '`Beyond Good and Evil: Ideal Images of Science in the Law`', Judicial Officers' Bulletin, pp. 59 - 60
    Journal articles | 1996
    Edmond G; Mercer D, 1996, 'Survey review', Metascience, 5, pp. 40 - 58,
  • Preprints | 2024
    Chin J; Clayton S; Cordner S; Edmond G; Growns B; Hunter K; I'Ons B; Martire K; Ribeiro G; Summersby S, 2024, Systematic review: The reliability of indicators that may differentiate between suicidal, homicidal, and accidental sharp force wounds,
    Preprints | 2024
    Martire K; Edmond G, 2024, How well do lay people comprehend statistical statements from forensic scientists?, ,
    Preprints | 2020
    Martire K; Bali A; Ballantyne K; Edmond G; Kemp R; Found B, 2020, Forensic science evidence: Naive estimates of false positive error rates and reliability,
    Preprints | 2020
    Martire K; Navarro D; Edmond G, 2020, Exploring Juror Evaluations of Expert Opinions Using the Expert Persuasion Expectancy (ExPEx) Framework, ,
    Preprints | 2020
    Robson SG; Searston RA; Edmond G; McCarthy D; Tangen JM, 2020, An expert-novice comparison of feature choice, ,
    Reports | 2020
    White D; Towler A; Jeffery L; Kemp R; Palermo R; Ballantyne K; Curby K; Edmond G; Martire K; O'Toole A; Phillips J; San Roque M; Wilmer J; Carter T; Dunn J; Tullberg C; Ferguson D; Geach J; Heyer R; Michalski D; Moreton R; Noyes E; Ritchie K; Sutherland C, 2020, Evaluating face identification expertise: Turning theory into practice,
    Preprints | 2019
    Chin J; McFadden R; Edmond G, 2019, Forensic Science needs Registered Reports,
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Cunin S; Dempster A; Kealy A; Edmond G, 2019, 'GNSS expert witness evidence in australian courts', in Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation Pacific Positioning, Navigation and Timing Meeting, Pacific PNT, pp. 676 - 690,
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Dempster AG; Edmond G; Kealy A; Moore T, 2019, 'Questions for providers of expert opinion on logged GNSS evidence', in ION 2019 International Technical Meeting Proceedings, pp. 816 - 827,
    Preprints | 2019
    Martire K; Navarro D; Edmond G; Newell BR, 2019, On the likelihood of 'encapsulating all uncertainty',
    Preprints | 2019
    Searston R; Thompson M; Robson SG; Corbett B; Ribeiro G; Edmond G; Tangen JM, 2019, Truth and transparency in expertise research,
    Reports | 2007
    Edmond G, 2007, Pathological Science? Demonstrable Reliability and Expert Forensic Pathology Evidence, Government of Ontario, Pathological Science? Demonstrable Reliability and Expert Forensic Pathology Evidence
    Preprints |
    Edmond G, Just Truth? A Partial Archaeology of the Admissibility Revolution Associated with Daubert, ,

2017-2020 ARC LP Creating perceptual expertise in Australia’s A$364 188

    policing and security agencies

    (Partners: Australian Federal Police; Queensland Police

    Service; National Institute of Forensic Sciences; New

    South Wales Police, Victoria Police)

                           Chief Investigator with Assoc. Prof. Jason Tangen (UQ)

    and others.

2016-2018  ARC LP: Improving the communication of A$200 500

    forensic science evidence to courts

    (Partner: Victoria Police)

    Chief Investigator with Dr Kristy Martire (UNSW)

2012-2015  ARC LP: Forensic reasoning and uncertainty     A$430 000

                        (Partners: Australian Federal Police; Queensland Police

                        Service; National Institute of Forensic Sciences; New

                        South Wales Police, Victoria Police)

    Chief Investigator with Assoc. Prof. Jason Tangen (UQ)

    and others

2009-2013  ARC Future Fellowship: Suspect sciences    A$761 981

    Chief Investigator

2010-2013  ARC LP: Forensic Voice Comparison      A$250 000

                        (Partners: School of Language, ANU; Engineering,

                        UNSW; Australian Federal Police; Queensland Police

                        Service; Victoria Police; Western Australian Police;

                        National Institute of Forensic Science; Guardia Civil,

                        Departamento de Ingeniería (Spain).)

    Chief Investigator with Dr Geoffrey Morrison (UNSW)  

    and others   

2007-2010  ARC Discovery Project: Law’s experts  A$108 000

    Chief Investigator

Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales

My Teaching

I teach Courts, Procedure, Evidence and Proof, Introducing Law and Justice and the elective Expert Evidence