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Law Activities

The Program is committed to assessing emerging legal issues related to science and technology, promoting the use of scientific evidence in legal contexts, and providing expert assistance to the legal community through a variety of projects and activities. To learn more about our current initiatives and projects, click on the links in the grey box above, or continue reading.

Ongoing Sci-Tech Law Projects

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Judicial Reference Materials on Science and Technology

The goal of this project is to ensure that judges, when hearing a case in which artificial intelligence is central to the matter, have available to them the necessary information to help guide their adjudication of the case.
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AAAS Judicial Seminars

AAAS and its collaborators have convened several seminar series to inform judges of the issues they may encounter in their courts, covering timely subjects such as climate science, neuroscience, and the Opioid Crisis.
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Key Reports

Forensic Science Assessments: Latent Fingerprint Examination

Forensic Science Assessments: Latent Fingerprint Examination

This report examines the bases for latent fingerprint examination, and sets forth what we know, what we do not know, and what the gaps are.
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Forensic Science Assessments: Fire Investigation

Forensic Science Assessments: Fire Investigation

This report examines the bases for fire investigations, and sets forth what we know, what we do not know, and what the gaps are. The study is divided into the two main aspects of fire investigation, the fire scene and the debris analysis.
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