Science and the Law: How the Communication of Science Affects Policy Development in the Environment, Food, Health, and Transport Sectors

William G. Town is President of the Kilmorie Consulting Division of Kilmorie Clarke Ltd. Dr. Town obtained chemistry degrees at the University of Birmingham and the University of Lancaster in the U.K. and worked at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge before joining the European Commission at JRC Ispra in Italy. In 2000, he served as the Chair of the ACS Chemical Information Division.
Judith N. Currano has been the head of the University of Pennsylvania's Chemistry Library since 1999. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and English from the University of Rochester, where she performed undergraduate research in the lab of Robert K. Boeckman, Jr., and a Master of Science degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her main research interests are in chemical information education and research and publication
ethics. At the University of Pennsylvania, she provides chemical science researchers with a broad spectrum of library and information services, while teaching a required graduate-level course in chemical information to the Ph.D. students.

This book explores the effect of the public communication of science on the interaction between science and policy development in the regulation of the environment, food, health, and transport sectors.