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    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 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