Bioethics Calendar Of Event
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Event Title: How Does DNA Evidence in the Courtroom Differ from Other Forensic Identification Techniques like Fingerprints?
Date: 11/11/2009
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Place: Case Lounge, 7th Floor
Columbia Law School (Jerome Greene Hall)
116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
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Speaker: Margaret Burger, JD, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Sponsor: Colloquium Series on Health, Law, and Society Columbia Law School
Contact Information: For further information, contact:
Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center - 212-543-4184, psa21@columbia.edu; or
Elizabeth Scott, JD, Columbia Law School – 212-854-9758, escott@law.columbia.edu.
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Description:
Lunch will be served at 12 noon. Presentation begins at 12:15p.
This presentation will address how the DNA-based identifications are made and will consider the more than 200 exonerations that have occurred on the basis of DNA evidence. Professor Berger will contrast this technique with fingerprint evidence, and talk about needed research that has not yet been done and problems that exist with DNA evidence.
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