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David H. Kaye is Regents' Professor, ASU. He holds appointments in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, the School of Life Sciences, and the Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology. For the 2007-2008 academic year he is the visiting Freeman Foundation Professor of American Law at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for American and Chinese Studies.


2007-2008 ACTIVITIES (ACADEMIC YEAR)

Work in Progress

  • Justitia's Sword: 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) (in press)
  • Rounding Up the Usual Suspects: A Legal and Logical Analysis of DNA Database Trawls (draft pdf file of a manuscript circulated to law reviews)
  • Interpretation: A Legal Perspective, in Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens eds.) (in press)
  • Where Have All the Women Gone? “Random Variation” in the Supreme Court Clerkship Lottery (with J.L. Gastwirth) (draft manuscript on SSRN)
  • The Role of Race in DNA Evidence, Southwestern Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2008, pp. __ (draft manuscript on SSRN)
  • Science in the Jury Box: Jurors' Views and Understanding of Mitochondrial DNA Evidence (with V. Hans et al.) (draft manuscript on SSRN top 10)
  • On a Mathematical Argument for Splitting the Ninth Circuit, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology

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)
  • 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 (pdf draft)
  • Mopping Up After Coming Clean About "Junk DNA", November 23, 2007, 5 pp. (self-published)
  • 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
  • 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

Other

  • Fulbright Workshop on "A Reader in American Law for Chinese Students," May 2008, Hong Kong
  • Faculty Colloquium, The Use of DNA Evidence in Law Enforcement: History, Law, and Liberty, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing, China, November 2007
  • Invited Lecture, DNA Evidence and Criminal Justice, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, November 2007
  • Invited Lecture, American Legal Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, November 2007
  • 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
  • Board of Foreign Advisers, Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science, China University of Politics and Law



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