Introduced more and more into courtrooms worldwide, scientific evidence can lead to enormous controversy. To gain perspective on the use of such evidence, an international symposium will be held at the UC Davis law school Friday, Jan. 31. During the one-day session titled "International Perspectives on Scientific Evidence," judges, lawyers and professors from the United States, Australia, The Netherlands and Great Britain will compare notes on how the evidence is used. Symposium speakers have been associated with such notable scientific evidence events as the landmark 1993 Daubert case (which set a new standard for the admission of such evidence in U.S. courtrooms) and the O.J. Simpson criminal trial. UC Davis law school professor and conference chair Edward Imwinkelried notes that the symposium features "major players in scientific evidence," including the judge who wrote the Daubert opinion in the Ninth Circuit of Appeals, the president of the first worldwide conference on scientific evidence, and a member of the Simpson defense team.