Nathan Schachtman

Nathan Schachtman studied biological sciences and philosophy at Rutgers College (A.B. 1975). He was graduated from Rutgers School of Law (J.D. magna cum laude 1982), where he was the articles editor of the law journal and a teaching assistant. After serving as a law clerk to Judge Emory Widener on the Fourth Circuit (1982-1983), he entered private practice, where he has tried dozens of cases, and argued appeals, across the United States. Schachtman has lectured and published widely on expert evidence issues. His interests include access to underlying research data; use of statistical, probabilistic, and epidemiologic evidence in court; medico-legal causation and screenings; reliability and admissibility of scientific evidence; and historian expert testimony. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a director of the Center for Truth in Science. From 2009 through 2018, he was a lecturer-in-law at the Columbia Law School, where he taught a course in statistics in the law. Since 2010, he has maintained a blog, Tortini, at https://schachtmanlaw.com/blog/.