UC Hastings Master of Studies in Law (MSL) Degree:
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Consortium Grand Rounds
Not So "Blind" Justice: The Cognitive Biases Endemic in Forensic Science and Their Possible Solutions
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 12-1pm
Alumni Reception Center (2nd floor)
200 McAllister St., UC Hastings College of the Law
About the Event
Experts are highly valued by the courts as they are regarded to provide impartial and objective evidence. However, understanding the way experts think and how the brain processes information offers insights to circumstances in which evidence may be far from objective or being impartial. Cognitive research has well established this problem, demonstrating many different types of psychological contaminations that affect experts in the criminal justice system. Cognitive science can help identify such weaknesses and provide practical ways to mitigate them.
Lunch will be provided so please RSVP here:
https://uchastings.webconnex.com/forensic_cognitive_bias_rsvp
About the Speaker
Dr. Itiel Dror is a cognitive neuroscientist. He is a Principal Consultant and Researcher at Cognitive Consultants International, Ltd. Interested in how the brain and cognitive system perceives and interprets information, he was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994. Dr. Dror's work focuses on the cognitive architecture that underpins expertise. He researches expert performance in the real world, examining medical surgeons, military fighter pilots, frontline police, and forensic analysts. Dr. Dror's research provides insights into the inherent trade-offs of being an expert. In the forensic domain he has demonstrated how contextual information can influence the judgments and decision making of experts; he has shown that even fingerprint and DNA experts can reach different conclusions when the same evidence is presented within different extraneous contexts. He has published over 100 research articles, and has been extensively cited in the Scottish Fingerprint Public Inquiry Report and in the American National Academy of Science Report on Forensic Science. He currently is working on a number of major research projects aimed at providing a better understanding of forensic experts and finding ways to make their judgments more reliable. Dr. Dror has been working with police forces and agencies in a variety of countries (e.g., The Netherlands, Finland, United Kingdom, the US, and Australia) in providing training and implementing cognitive best practices in evaluating forensic evidence. More information is available at www.cci-hq.com.
References
References can be downloaded from www.cci-hq.com:
- Dror, I.E. & Cole, S. (2010). The vision in "blind" justice: Expert perception, judgment and visual cognition in forensic pattern recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(2), 161-167.
- Dror, I.E. & Rosenthal, R. (2008). Meta-analytically quantifying the reliability and biasability of forensic experts. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 53(4), 900-903.
- Dror, I.E. (2011). The paradox of human expertise: Why experts get it wrong. In N. Kapur (Ed.) The Paradoxical Brain (pp.177-188). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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For this event, we will be offering both CME and CLE credits.
The O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
These activities have been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) and the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. UCSF is accredited by the ACGME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The planning committee and faculty have reviewed and approved content for this event with regard to conflicts of interest.
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Children's Health, Mental Health, and the Law
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Friday, March 28, 2014, 8:30am-6:00pm
Saturday, March 29, 2014, 8:30am-12:30pm
Louis B. Mayer Lounge, 198 McAllister St., UC Hastings College of the Law
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:15 Welcome Remarks - Chancellor and Dean Frank H. Wu 9:15-10:45 Panel 1: Controversies in Childhood Immunization Policy 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Panel 2: Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Future
of Children's Health
12:30-1:45 Lunch and Keynote Address by Nancy Adler, PhD
1:45-3:15 Panel 3: Children and Healthcare Decisionmaking
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Panel 4: The Impact of Violence on Children
5:00-6:00 Reception
Saturday, March 29 Failing our Kids: The Mental Health "Non-System"
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:15 Welcome Remarks - Professor Lois Weithorn, JD, PhD
9:15-10:45 Panel 5: Meeting Children's Mental Health Needs Across
Systems
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Panel 6: Psychotropic Medications and Children: Science, Law & Policy
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For this event, we will be offering both CME and CLE credits.
The O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
These activities have been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) and the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. UCSF is accredited by the ACGME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The planning committee and faculty have reviewed and approved content for this event with regard to conflicts of interest.
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March 20th, 6:00-8:00pm
Sky Room (24th floor)
100 McAllister St., UC Hastings College of the Law
Register Here
Consortium Grand Rounds: Innovations in Informed Consent Law and Practice: Shared Decisionmaking
Ben Moulton, JD, MPH
April 9th, 3:30-4:30pm UCSF Parnassus - CL-220&223
American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
37th Annual Health Law Professors Conference
June 5th-7th
Louis B. Mayer Lounge,
198 McAllister St., UC Hastings College of the Law
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Sincerely,
Roxy Bischoff
Projects Assistant
UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on
Law, Science and Health Policy [email protected]
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