IN THE NEWS
Center for Policy and Research
fellows are featured this week on Due Process, the weekly
show on law and justice issues produced by NJN, New
Jersey's public television station, where they discuss their
experiences working on the insightful and controversial
Guantánamo Reports.
The show aired on Sunday night
and will be broadcast again on Tuesday, April 22 at 11:30 pm.
It is also available online now by clicking the following link:
NJN
Due Process 20 April 2008
OUR
MISSION
While the core of all legal
education is legal doctrine, Seton Hall also aspires to teach
more sophisticated skills.
Pattern recognition,
factual evaluation and careful use of data are essential for
both the practice of law and for the application of legal
doctrine to real world problems. Seton Hall offers students a
unique opportunity to work with facts and data, to find and
develop patterns from large quantities of information, and to
evaluate the significance of what they discover.
The Center for Policy and
Research, directed by Professor Mark Denbeaux, undertakes
analysis conducted primarily by students who serve as Fellows at
the Center. These Fellows publish reports on subjects of
national importance in conjunction with other Seton Hall faculty
and Senior Fellows of the Center.
For the past three years,
the Fellows have been analyzing data to illuminate the
national security practices of the United States. The
National Security Research projects include Detention Practices
& Policies (Guantánamo and elsewhere) and Interrogation &
Intelligence Gathering (manner of collection and the reliability
of the information obtained.)
Five of the eight Seton
Hall reports have been introduced into the Congressional record
by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and the House Armed Services Committee.
As a separate effort the
Center has studied forensic evidence for the last few years
through its crime laboratory.
The Fellows review the proficiency testing of forensic
witnesses, the bases upon which forensic witnesses’ opinions
rest, and the methodology. Center Crime Laboratory Fellows
currently are studying handwriting, ballistics, fingerprinting,
blood spatter, tool marks, and bite marks.
In the next phase, the
Center will analyze professional disciplinary proceedings
(medical and legal) to create a profile of those charged with
disciplinary violations, those who have been disciplined; the
basis for discipline, and the sanctions that are imposed. Such
research will be critical to understanding the effectiveness of
the system’s first line of defense against professional
misconduct.
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