DH Kaye: Archive of Recent Developments

ARCHIVE OF DEVELOPMENTS

2008 Spring Semester & Summer

Freeman Foundation Professor of American Law, Hopkins-Nanjing Center for American and Chinese Studies, Nanjing, China
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)
Fulbright Workshop on "A Reader in American Law for Chinese Students," Hong Kong, May 2008
Invited Lecture, Controversies over Genetic Evidence of Identity, China University of Politics and Law, Beijing, June 2008

2007 Fall Semester

Freeman Foundation Professor of American Law, Hopkins-Nanjing Center for American and Chinese Studies, Nanjing, China
Revisiting Dreyfus: A More Complete Account of a Trial by Mathematics, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 3, Feb. 2007, pp. 825-835
The Science of Human Identification: From the Laboratory to the Courtroom (and Back), Minnesota Journal of Law Science and Technology, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 409-421
Please, Let's Bury the Junk: The CODIS Loci and the Revelation of Private Information, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Vol. 102, September 2007, pp. 70-81
DNA Probabilities in People v. Prince: When Are Racial and Ethnic Statistics Relevant? in Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of David A. Freedman, T. Speed & D. Nolan eds., Beachwood, OH: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2007, pp. 289-301. (The link provided above is to galley proofs. The published version is available in IMS Collections 2008, Vol. 2, 289-301)
Mopping Up After Coming Clean About "Junk DNA", November 23, 2007, 5 pp. (self-published)
Statistics in the Jury Box: How Jurors Respond to Mitochondrial DNA Probabilities, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 797-834 (with V. Hans et al.) (draft manuscript on SSRN)
Invited Lecture, Review by Civilian Courts of the Detention of Military Prisoners in the War on Terror, Wuhan University College of Law, Wuhan, China, October 2007
Invited Lecture, American Legal Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, November 2007
Invited Lecture, DNA Evidence and Criminal Justice, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, November 2007
Faculty Colloquium, The Use of DNA Evidence in Law Enforcement: History, Law, and Liberty, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing, November 2007

2007 Spring Semester

Can Jury Trial Innovations Improve Juror Understanding of DNA Evidence?, NIJ Journal, November 2006, pp. 2–7 (with B.M. Dann & V.P. Hans), reprinted, Judicature, Vol. 90, No. 4, Jan.-Feb. 2007; The Prosecutor, Vol. 40, Nov.-Dec. 2006, pp. 20-24 | preprint pdf |
Invited Commentator, National Academy of Sciences' Workshop on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community, April 2007, Washington, DC
Invited Commentator, The Law and Ethics of Brain Scanning, Phoenix, Arizona, April 13, 2007 | SLIDES |
Grant Review Panel, National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, August 2007

2006

McCormick on Evidence, 6th ed., St. Paul, MN: West Group (with five co-authors)
2006-07 edition of Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (with four coauthors)
Cumulative supplement to The New Wigmore, A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence (with two coauthors)
Behavioral Genetics and Criminal DNA Databanks, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 69, Nos. 1 & 2, Winter-Spring 2006, pp. 259-300 | abstract | online version of LCP |
Science Fiction and Shed DNA, 101 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 62 (2006) [SSRN preprint among top ten downloads]
The Current State of Bullet Lead Evidence, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Vol. 47, No. 1, Fall 2006, pp. 99-114
Female High Court Clerks: Drop Could Be Anomaly, National Law Journal, October 30, 2006 (with J.L. Gastwirth)
Science in the Jury Box: Do Jurors Understand MtDNA Evidence?, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Austin, Texas, October 2006 [SSRN preprint among top ten downloads]
Who Needs Special Needs? On the Constitutionality of Collecting DNA and Other Biometric Data from Arrestees, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 188-198 | SSRN top ten paper | pdf preprint |
Invited talk: Forensic Statistics: Intelligence, Evidence, and Law, presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security, Seattle, Washington, August 2006
Justice Talking, National Public Radio, July 2006
Faculty: Fulbright China Orientation, Washington D.C., June 2006
Invited Talk: National Symposium on DNA Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties, Boston, Mass., May, 2006
Deinard Memorial Lecture on Law and Medicine, University of Minnesota, January 2006
Midmorning, Minnesota Public Radio, January 2006
Moderator: Panel on Empirical Research on Evidence, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2006

2005

2005-2006 edition of Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (with D. Faigman, M. Saks, and J. Sanders)
The NRC Bullet-Lead Report: Should Science Committees Make Legal Findings?
On “Falsification” and “Falsifiability”: The First Daubert Factor and the Philosophy of Science
Invited lecture: "The Legal Acceptance of Forensic DNA Evidence" at the National Academy of Sciences' Sackler colloquium on Forensic Science: The Nexus of Science and the Law, Wash. D.C. (webcast available from NAS)
Annotated Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (with D. Faigman, M. Saks, and J. Sanders)
Testing Jury Reforms, in the Delaware Lawyer (with Valerie P. Hans et al.)
2005 supplement to The New Wigmore, A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence (with D.E. Bernstein and J.L. Mnookin)
Invited lecture: Human Identification Symposium, London (archived talks)
Invited lecture: The Impact of Behavioral Genetics on Criminal Law symposium, Duke University (webcast available from Duke)
Invited lecture: Sixth International Conference on Forensic Statistics, ASU