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PAPERS AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS

Colloquia (invited)

  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Arizona State University
  • Cornell University
  • Duke University
  • Emory University
  • Leicester University
  • Nottingham University
  • Oxford University
  • Qinghua University (Beijing)
  • Sichuan University (Chengdu)
  • University of Chicago
  • University College (London)
  • University of Iowa
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wyoming
  • Willamette University
  • Yeshiva University

Named Lectures

Academic and Professional Conferences and Symposia (invited)

  • Third Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell Law School, September 2008
    • (selected from abstracts submitted)
  • Seventh International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics, University of Lausanne, August 2008 (commentator)
  • First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Austin, Texas, October 2006 (selected from abstracts submitted)
  • Sixth International Conference on Forensic Statistics. Tempe, Arizona, March 2005
  • Life Sciences, Technology, and the Law. Michigan Law School, March 2003
  • Fifth International Conference on Forensic Statistics. Venice, Italy, September 2002
  • The Human Genome Project, DNA Science, and the Law. American University, Washington College of Law, October 2001
  • Conference on DNA: Lessons from the Past, Problems for the Future. Brooklyn Law School, March 2001
  • Olin Conference on New Perspectives on Evidence. University of Virginia School of Law, February 2001
  • Fourth International Conference on Forensic Statistics. Raleigh, December 1999
  • Second ASU-SB Invitational Symposium on Law and Science: Law and Regulation at the Frontiers of Predictive Genetic Testing. Scottsdale, March 1999
  • First ASU-SB Invitational Symposium on Law and Science: Respecting Genetic Privacy, Gold Canyon, March 1999
  • Ninth International Symposium on Human Identification, Orlando, October 1998
  • Second Annual Conference on DNA Forensics: Science, Evidence, and Future Prospects, Cambridge Health Institute, McLean, November 1997
  • First European Symposium on Forensic Science, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1997
  • International Symposium on Human Identification, Scottsdale, September 1996
  • Third International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1996
  • National Institute of Statistical Sciences Forum on DNA Fingerprinting, Chapel Hill, October 1993
  • Cardozo Conference on Decision and Inference in Litigation, New York City,  March 1991
  • First International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 1990
  • Conference on Effective Use of Computers in Legal Aid and Public Defender Programs, Tempe, January 1987
  • Boston University Symposium on Probability, Inference and Evidence in the Law, Boston, April 1986
  • Symposium on the Use of Statistics in Business Litigation, Duke University, Durham, May 1983
  • American Association of Blood Banks International Conference on Inclusion Probabilities in Parentage Testing, Airlie, May 1982

Meetings of Professional Societies (invited presentations)

  • Forensic Statistics: Intelligence, Information, and Proof, Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, Washington, August 2006
  • Panelist, Are Psychodynamic Statements Admissible in the Courtroom?, American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, October 2004
  • Panel on Statistical Issues in Bullet Lead Evidence, Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, August 2004
  • Expert Opinions on Identity: Fingerprints, AALS Conference on Evidence, Washington DC, June 2002
  • Forensic DNA Databases--Ethical Issues, Section on Law and Medicine, Association of American Law Schools, San Francisco, January 2001
  • Eighteenth International Congress on Forensic Haemogenetics, San Francisco, August 1999
  • Parentage Testing, Association of American Law Schools Workshop on Family Law, Wash. D.C., February 1994
  • Statistical Issues in DNA Identification--Legal Considerations, Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston, August 1992
  • Legal and Scientific Reasoning, The Contrasting Cultures of Law and Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago, Illinois, February 1992
  • Statistics in Legal Education, Section on Statistical Education, American Statistical Association, Philadelphia, August 1984
  • Probability Evidence, Law and Social Sciences Section, American Association of Law Schools, San Francisco, January 1984

Testimony or presentations to commissions, agencies, legislatures, or press conferences (invited)

  • The Admissibility of Biometric Identification Evidence, Technology, Policy, and Cultural Dimensions of Biometric Systems: A Workshop, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academies, Washington, D.C., March 2005
  • Juror Comprehension of Mitochondrial DNA Evidence, Advisory Committee on “Testing the Effects of Selected Jury Trial Innovations on Juror Comprehension of DNA Evidence,” National Institute of Justice, Washington D.C., April 2003
  • Workshop on Medicolegal Death Examination System, Institute of Medicine, National Academies, Washington, D.C., March 2003
  • DNA Evidence: Legal and Ethical Issues, National Institute of Justice, DNA and Sexual Assault Workshop, Washington, D.C., December 2002
  • Misunderstandings of Probabilities of Identification Evidence, Law, Science, and Technology Panel, National Academies, Wash. D.C., February 2002
  • Nonoffender DNA Databanks, New York State Commission on Forensic Science, New York City, January 2001
  • The Retention and Subsequent Use of Suspect, Elimination, and Victim DNA Samples or Records, National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, Boston, November 2000
  • The Constitutionality of DNA Sampling on Arrest, National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, Santa Fe, May 1999
  • National Academy of Sciences press conference on Forensic DNA Technology: An Update, Wash. D.C., May 1996

Continuing Judicial Education Lectures (invited)

  • Ninth Circuit Workshop, Santa Barbara, January 2003
  • Arizona Judicial Education Day, Phoenix, November 2002
  • NYU Institute of Judicial Administration, Appellate Judges Seminar, New York City, July 2002
  • American Bar Association Judicial Division Seminar for Appellate Judges, Coeur d'Alene, July 2002; Breckenridge, August 2001; Phoenix, March 2001
  • Arizona-Southwest Conference on Genetics in the Courtroom, Arizona Supreme Court, Sedona, February 2000
  • Federal Judicial Center Seminar on the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, San Francisco, January 1995; New Orleans, December 1994
  • Federal Judicial Center 1993 Traveling Seminar Series (Albuquerque, Des Moines, Mobile, Portland, Rochester, Syracuse)
  • Scientific Evidence and the Judiciary, Federal Judicial Center Workshop, Port Jefferson, September 1993
  • Federal Judicial Center Seminar, Tempe, March 1993
  • Federal Judicial Center 1992 Criminal Law Seminar, Nashville, June 1992
  • Arizona Superior Court Judges Criminal Code Seminar, Tempe, September 1978

Continuing Legal Education Lectures (invited)

  • Program on Expert and Scientific Evidence, Arizona Department of Justice, Phoenix, June 2001
  • American Law Institute–American Bar Association Program on New Directions in Expert Testimony: Scientific, Technical, and Other Specialized Knowledge Evidence in Federal and State Courts, San Francisco, April 2001, and Boston, May 1994
  • Seminar on Recent Developments and Issues Concerning Scientific Evidence, State Bar of Arizona Public Lawyers Section, Tempe, November 1997
  • DNA Identification Technologies and the Law, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology, Tempe, December 1991
  • Scientific Evidence, Satellite Continuing Legal Education Network, New York, February 1988
  • Scientific Evidence 1986: Developments in Arizona and the Nation, Tempe, December 1986
  • Lectures on probability and statistics, National Judicial College, Scientific Evidence Course, Reno, September 1986
  • Probability and Statistical Evidence, Maricopa County Bar Association Seminar on Scientific Evidence, Tempe, April 1985
  • Probability Evidence in Criminal Cases, American Bar Association Second Annual Seminar on Criminal Defense and Prosecution, Washington, D.C., March 1985
  • Southwest Biomedical Research Workshop on Paternity Testing, Phoenix, October 1982
  • Jurisprudence and Justice, State Bar of Arizona Continuing Legal Education Symposium on Law and Morality, Tempe, October 1981

Continuing Statistics Education Lectures (invited)

  • Applied Statistics Week, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000
  • Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium, Hilton Head, December 1998

Broadcast Media Interviews

  • Justice Talking, National Public Radio, July, 2006
  • Midmorning, Minnesota Public Radio, January 2006
  • Miscellaneous television news programs, Phoenix, Arizona

Other Presentations (invited)

  • International Workshop on Forensic DNA Evidence, Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing, China, October 2005
  • Fulbright China Program Orientation Session, Washington DC, June 2005 and June 2006
  • Human Identification e-symposium, London, England, April 2005
  • DNA Databases, Arizona Civil Liberties Union Privacy Forum, Tempe, April 2001
  • Probability Evidence, ASU Statistics Week, Tempe, March 2000
  • Legal Issues in Death and Dying, Symposium on Law and Medical Ethics, Phoenix, November 1983
  • Fourth Annual Affirmative Action Association Conference, Phoenix, March 1979
  • Arizona Council on Humanities and Public Policy Conference on Censorship, Casa Grande, March 1977