Forensic Science: The Nexus of Science and the Law

Organized by Stephen E. Fienberg, Margaret A. Berger, David Donoho,
Donald Kennedy, Roger Kahn, and Douglas H. Ubelaker
National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, DC
November 16-18, 2005

Conference Overview

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Session I: Scientific Evidence and the Law Opening Remarks Chair: Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Shirley S. Abrahamson, Chief Justice, State of Wisconsin, Supreme Court Legal Standards for Expert Testimony	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Discussion Margaret Berger, Brooklyn Law School	Presentation Speaker's Website
Discussion Joel Cohen, Rockefeller University	Speaker’s Website
Discussion Donald Kennedy, Stanford University	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Discussion Ronald L. Singer, Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office	Presentation Speaker's Website
Session II: DNA Fingerprinting and Related Genetics Advances: From the Laboratory to the Crime Scene to the Courts I Chair: Donald Kennedy, Stanford University Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University Advances in Population Genetics: The Science and Its Uses	Presentation Speaker’s Website
James Crow, University of Wisconsin, Madison Early DNA Fingerprinting Techniques and Scientific Issues	Presentation Speaker’s Website
David Kaye, Arizona State University Early DNA Fingerprinting Techniques and Legal Acceptance	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Session III: DNA Fingerprinting and Related Genomics Advances: From the Laboratory to the Crime Science to the Courts II Chair: Margaret Berger, Brooklyn Law School Bruce Budowle, FBI Laboratory Testing of DNA for Forensic Use: Protocols, Quality Assurance, Training and Accreditation Issues	Presentation Michael Saks' comments Speaker's Website
Discussion Roger Kahn, Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office	Presentation Speaker's Website
Discussion David Faigman, Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Session IV: Expert Scientific Evidence and Testimony Chair: David Donoho, Stanford University Colin Aitken, University of Edinburgh, Scotland The Evaluation and Interpretation of Scientific Evidence	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Elizabeth Loftus, University of California, Irvine Illusions of Memory and Loss of Justice	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Richard L. Garwin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Synchronization of the Acoustic Evidence in the Assassination of President Kennedy	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Session V: Identification Through Biometrics I Chair: Margaret Berger, Brooklyn Law School Simon Cole, University of California, Irvine A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Anil Jain, Michigan State University Uniqueness of Fingerprints	Presentation Speaker's Website
Jennifer Mnookin, University of California, Los Angeles Contrasting Fingerprint Evidence (Past and Future) with DNA Profiling from a Legal Perspective	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Session VI: Identification Through Biometrics II Chair: Roger Kahn, Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office Richard Wildes, York University Iris Scanning for Human ID	Presentation Speaker's Website
Jonathon Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology Scientific Validation of Human ID Technologies	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Discussion David Donoho, Stanford University	Speaker’s Website
Discussion David Faigman, Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco	Presentation Speaker's Website
Session VII: Emerging Areas of Forensic Science Chair: Douglas H. Ubelaker, Smithsonian Institution Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University Joseph P. Campbell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Linguistics and the Science Behind Speaker Identification	Abridged Presentation Presentation Speaker’s Website
William Freeman, MIT The Validity of Digital Photographic Evidence	Speaker’s Website
Thomas L. Bohan, MTC Forensics New Approaches to Forensic Issues in Engineering Sciences	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Michael A. Peat, Editor, Journal of Forensic Sciences Forensic Toxicology	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Discussion and Isolation of Key Themes and Topics Chair: Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University David Donoho, Stanford University	Speaker’s Website
Roger Kahn, Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office	Presentation Speaker's Website
Douglas H. Ubelaker, Smithsonian Institution	Presentation Speaker’s Website
David Faigman, Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco	Presentation Speaker's Website
Closing Remarks Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University	Presentation Speaker’s Website