Before coming to John Jay, Adina Schwartz was a federal public defender and, before that, an assistant professor in the Yale University Philosophy Department.  Her article, “A Systemic Challenge to the Reliability and Admissibility of Firearms and Toolmark Identification,” 6 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 1 (March 28, 2005), is cited in the National Research Counsel’s Report on Ballistics Imaging (2008) and in two federal court decisions, United States v. Monteiro, 407 F. Supp. 2d 351 (D.Mass. 2006), and United States v. Green, 405 F. Supp. 2d 104 (D. Mass. 2005), that severely restrict the admissibility of firearms and toolmark identification testimony.  She has served as an defense expert, consulted, and made numerous presentations on the issue.  Courts have also cited two others of her articles: "Homes as Folding Umbrellas: Two Recent Supreme Court Decisions on  'Knock and Announce'," 25 American Journal of Criminal Law 545 (1998), and "A 'Dogma of Empiricism' Revisited: Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and the Need to Resurrect the Philosophical Insight of Frye v. United States," 10 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology:149 (1997).