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Yes, that's one option. But the question is then "who do I ask?" If you don't understand the field yourself (at least to some degree) it's just as easy to get s
by codeka 14y ago
Yes, that's one option. But the question is then "who do I ask?" If you don't understand the field yourself (at least to some degree) it's just as easy to get suckered into asking the wrong person for an opinion.
It's hard to say, though, what "to some degree" should be. How much do we expect judges to know about automobiles, or construction, or medicine or whatever other fields they need to make judgments on? It seems to me you can't expect a judge to be completely ignorant of a field and still make valuable judgments on it.
- cube13 14y agoThis is exactly what expert witnesses are for. They're accredited "experts" in their field who are called to explain technical issues to the judge and jury. The problem here is that there isn't a "Professional Engineer" license for software/computer engineering(whether or not there should be is a totally different discussion). That makes it really difficult to get expert witnesses who can explain the terminology and give commentary. CS professors often are called for this role, but there aren't that many of them for all of the cases.