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In this chapter I analyse the role of two historians who have testified as expert witnesses for the US Department of Justice in US v. Philip Morris et al. My examination focuses on the interaction between the two historians, the DOJ attorneys, the judge, the government’s representatives, and opposing counsel. Were scholarly standards upheld or did they sway for a form of lawyer’s advocacy or for the legal straightjacket of procedural rules? Drawing on court records and interviews with the protagonists, this chapter shows how historical scholarship in the form of expert testimony had a considerable influence on Judge Kessler’s 2006 decision which convicted the major American tobacco manufacturers of racketeering. |
