2008-2009 ACTIVITIES (ACADEMIC YEAR)

Work in Progress

• DNA Identification and the Threat to Civil Liberties, New Haven: Yale University Press (in preparation)
• The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence: Controversies over the Admissibility of Genetic Evidence of Identity, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (expected 2009)
• Cumulative supplement to The New Wigmore, A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence (with D. Bernstein and J. Mnookin) (2009, in press)
• Statistics, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (Federal Judicial Center ed., 3d ed.) (with D.A. Freedman) (2009, in press)
• DNA Evidence, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (Federal Judicial Center ed., 3d ed.) (with G. Sensabaugh) (2009, in press)
• Rounding Up the Usual Suspects: A Legal and Logical Analysis of DNA Database Trawls, North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, January 2009 (draft manuscript in SSRN - top 10)
• People v. Nelson: A Tale of Two Statistics, Law, Probability, and Risk, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2008 (draft manuscript on SSRN)
• Interpretation: A Legal Perspective, in Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens eds.) (2009, in press)
• Science in the Jury Box: Jurors' Views and Understanding of Mitochondrial DNA Evidence (with V. Hans et al.) (draft manuscript on SSRN top 10)
• Where Have All the Women Gone? The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Clerkships (with J.L. Gastwirth) (draft manuscript on SSRN)
• Probability and Individuality in Forensic Science Evidence (under review, draft manuscript on SSRN)

Published

• The Disappearance that Wasn't? "Random Variation" in the Number of Women Supreme Court Clerks, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 48, No. 4, Summer 2008, pp. 457–463 (page proofs on SSRN)
• On a Mathematical Argument for Splitting the Ninth Circuit, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 48, No. 3, Spring 2008, pp. 329–336 (page proofs on SSRN)
• The Role of Race in DNA Evidence: What Experts Say, What California Courts Allow, Southwestern Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2008, pp. 303-322 (Evidence Symposium: CEC v. FRE, draft manuscript on SSRN)

Other

• Invited plenary speaker, European Association of Forensic Science, September 2009
• Speaker, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell Law School, September 2008
• Organizer and commentator, Seventh International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008 (Swiss newspaper interview)
• NPR Airtalk interview on the "excess" of partial matches in the Arizona DNA database, July 23, 2008
• Board of Foreign Advisers, Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science, China University of Politics and Law

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