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Consortium Summer Workshop: The G2i Research Project (5/29/2013)

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	5/29/2013	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	5/29/2013	End Time:	1:00 PM

UC Hastings - Mary Kay Kane Hall
Room: 620B

Scientists build their knowledge of the natural and social worlds by collecting large datasets and making inferences at the group or population level. Lawyers are largely concerned with how the natural and social worlds impact or might help to decide individual cases. Reasoning from group data to individual decision making (“G2i”) is a central and pervasive characteristic of the courtroom use of scientific research, yet the G2i issue has not been the subject of systematic study or analysis, by either the scientific or legal communities.

The G2i Research Project has created an interdisciplinary committee, composed of 13 nationally and internationally-recognized scholars from disciplines including law, neuroscience, psychology and statistics. Led by David Faigman, the Co-Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, this committee will study and make recommendations regarding a key issue – perhaps the key issue – where law and science meet: the challenge of translating scientific findings based on group data so that they can be used in an effective way to make legal determinations about individuals.

One piece of this research, led by David Faigman and Shayna Lewis, has been to examine the patterns and issues that arise in the current approach courts are using to make their way through G2i analyses. Join us as they discuss their forthcoming article on Wednesday, May 29, 2013.

Summer RA Training (6/4/2013)

Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/4/2013	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	6/4/2013	End Time:	1:00 PM

UC Hastings - Mary Kay Kane Hall
Room: 640

The Library is hosting an orientation and training for Summer Research Assistants on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at noon in the Rusty Dobbs Seminar Room (Room 640 in the 200 Building). We will be serving pizza and refreshments. During the orientation session, research assistants will meet with their professor's faculty-liaison librarian to discuss their research project and review relevant resources.

The International Human Rights Framework - A CLE Training Conference (6/11/2013 - 6/12/2013)

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/11/2013	All Day
End Date:	6/12/2013

Alumni Reception Center - 2nd Floor

Incorporating international norms and human rights mechanisms into advocacy strategies can yield powerful results in advancing civil rights and social justice. This conference features some of the country’s most experienced practitioners. Topics include the use of United Nations human rights mechanisms, the Inter-American Human Rights System, and litigation of international norms in domestic fora, as well as implementation of human rights standards through policy reform at the local and state levels, and documentation of human rights abuses. Public interest and criminal defense attorneys as well as advocates focused on civil rights and social justice issues, domestic and internationally, will gain a fundamental understanding of how to use the international human rights framework to protect their clients’ basic rights and freedoms. This training has been approved for over 10 Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit hours by the State Bar of California.