Law and science, two powerful institutions, converge and at the same time show their differences in the criminal justice process. The seminar investigates how truth in law and truth in science are involved in the admission of forensic evidence. How does scientific uncertainty intersect with the legal process? The recent discovery of wrongful convictions involving forensic evidence addresses this question and opens a large debate among forensic scientists and legal scholars.
Participants are invited to attend trials of the regional court of Berlin, the largest of its kind in Germany with three different locations. The court in Moabit tries in first instance serious crimes and in second instance less serious crimes on appeal against first instance judgments of the local courts.
The seminar investigates how courts can use forensic results and simultaneously take into account their scientific limitations.
The Workshop will be held as Blockseminar and also integrates online sessions;
Vorbesprechung Freitag, 21. Oktober, 18-19 Uhr
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