Tuesday, February 11 at 7:00 PM
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DNA IS?
The genetic future is now. It is very likely that some commercial, medical research or governmental entity has either your DNA sample or your genetic information. And, you don’t know it and may not even know that they have collected and stored it. Do You Know Where Your DNA Is? takes you through the current state of forensic DNA technology, genetic genealogy, familial searching and wrongful convictions based on post-conviction DNA testing among the many and varied uses of genetic information. So … come and find out why you need to be careful to whom you are related genetically.
Albert E. (Buzz) Scherr is a professor of law at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law in Concord, New Hampshire and Chair of its International Criminal Law & Justice program.
As a lawyer, he has been litigating forensic DNA issues in state and federal courts for 25 years and continues to advocate for reforms in the use of forensic DNA evidence in the NH legislature and elsewhere.
As a scholar, Professor Scherr was the principal investigator on a two–year NIH grant to study genetics, police investigation and constitutional privacy. the basis for a Georgia Law Review article, “Genetic Privacy and the Fourth Amendment: Unregulated Surreptitious DNA Harvesting.”
Professor Scherr also created, co–designed & taught a national model, NIH–funded Summer Faculty Institute at Dartmouth College for nine years that educated undergraduate faculty from around the country in the ethical, legal and social issues of the Human Genome Project.
He has lectured to judges, attorneys, educators and others regionally and nationally on a variety of genetics, law and privacy issues and consults regularly with prosecutors and defense lawyers.
He is the author of the newest amendment to the NH Constitution which grants those in NH a constitutional right to information privacy and has worked closely with allies to move forward privacy legislation in the NH legislature.
Professor Scherr was a member of the ACLU’s national Board of Directors for seven years and Chair of its Patents & Civil Liberties policy committee. He also was president of the ACLU-NH for five and a half years.
The genetic future is now. It is very likely that some commercial, medical research or governmental entity has either your DNA sample or your genetic information. And, you don’t know it and may not even know that they have collected and stored it. Do You Know Where Your DNA Is? takes you through the current state of forensic DNA technology, genetic genealogy, familial searching and wrongful convictions based on post-conviction DNA testing among the many and varied uses of genetic information. So … come and find out why you need to be careful to whom you are related genetically.
Albert E. (Buzz) Scherr is a professor of law at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law in Concord, New Hampshire and Chair of its International Criminal Law & Justice program.
As a lawyer, he has been litigating forensic DNA issues in state and federal courts for 25 years and continues to advocate for reforms in the use of forensic DNA evidence in the NH legislature and elsewhere.
As a scholar, Professor Scherr was the principal investigator on a two–year NIH grant to study genetics, police investigation and constitutional privacy. the basis for a Georgia Law Review article, “Genetic Privacy and the Fourth Amendment: Unregulated Surreptitious DNA Harvesting.”
Professor Scherr also created, co–designed & taught a national model, NIH–funded Summer Faculty Institute at Dartmouth College for nine years that educated undergraduate faculty from around the country in the ethical, legal and social issues of the Human Genome Project.
He has lectured to judges, attorneys, educators and others regionally and nationally on a variety of genetics, law and privacy issues and consults regularly with prosecutors and defense lawyers.
He is the author of the newest amendment to the NH Constitution which grants those in NH a constitutional right to information privacy and has worked closely with allies to move forward privacy legislation in the NH legislature.
Professor Scherr was a member of the ACLU’s national Board of Directors for seven years and Chair of its Patents & Civil Liberties policy committee. He also was president of the ACLU-NH for five and a half years.
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