ABSTRACT
Fierce debates characterize the development of the peculiar institution of the expert in various legal traditions ranging from the hard sciences to the humanities. Developments in the forensic sciences deemed relevant for understanding the emergence of the courtroom role of historians create the background against which the “forensication” of historiography appears by no means a unique phenomenon. It does resurface, however, as a complex case burdened with the specificities of the entangled relationship between history and law.
