Month May 2019

Law & Science Amicus Brief Project at Duke Law Professors Nita Farahany and Brandon Garrett will be teaching in Fall 2019 a course in which Duke law students will work on a series of amicus briefs raising appellate issues at… Continue Reading →

I discuss recent CSAFE research on how jurors evaluate proficiency of fingerprint experts – a new paper co-authored with Greg Mitchell, on the great Double Loop podcast – here – “Eric and Glenn return from a couple weeks off of… Continue Reading →

This new piece is not about forensic science, really, but rather risk assessment in sentencing for low-risk offenders, the latest in a series of studies – with John Monahan and Alex Jakubow – Judicial Reliance on Risk Assessment in Sentencing… Continue Reading →