Professional Development
Conferences / Events
- 60th annual meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences
February 18-23, Washington, D.C
- Off The Witness Stand: conference on using psychology in the practice of justice.
- A New Legal Architecture: Litigating Eyewitness Identification Cases in the 21st Century, New York, New York, March 14-15, 2008.
- Forensic Science Training Platform for Judges, in cooperation with the Advanced Science and Technology Adjudicative Resource initiative, New York, October, 2008.
Research
- The Center, in collaboration with the American Judicature Society, The Police Foundation and the Innocence Project has developed and supervised field studies of proposed eyewitness identification procedure modernizations, and marshaled “Blue Ribbon” panels to critique ongoing field research.
Post-event Evaluations
- The Center is launching an exploratory Arson Screening Project, to assess the impact of decades of false fire “science” on arson determinations and convictions.
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Center Wins Grant for Ground-Breaking Arson Screening Program
The Center has won a grant of $248,000 from the JEHT Foundation for an innovative Arson Screening Project, designed to assess the damage done by generations of “bad science” arson convictions. The Arson Screening Project will be the first program to address systematically the roles played by improved science in revealing mistaken convictions in a non-DNA context.
The 63rd Annual Short Course for Prosecuting Attorneys, and the 51st Annual Short Course for Defense Attorneys.
The Center will continue its association with Northwestern University School of Law’s renowned Short Courses by organizing the forensics content with presentations by Center affiliates Peter R. De Forest, Peter Diaczuk, James Doyle, Angela Crossman and John Lentini.
Dr. Peter R. De Forest , having retired from the Department of Science at John Jay after 37 years, has joined the Center as Chief Science Fellow.
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