MEDIA ADVISORY
Library of Congress Webinar on Human Rights Day: Science Literacy and the Law
The Law Library of Congress will host a webinar on Thursday, Dec. 7, to discuss how science literacy helps the law, including handling of evidence at all stages of its journey through the criminal justice system. Sarah Cooper, a 2017 Law Library scholar-in-residence, will explain how science helps the law to understand the world in which legal policy, including human rights standards like the right to a fair and public trial, must operate.
What:Human Rights Day Webinar: Science Literacy and the Law
When:Thursday, Dec. 7, 3 p.m. ET.
Where:Livestream webinar on zoom.gov
Who:
Dr. Sarah Cooper, a professor of Interdisciplinary Criminal Justice at Birmingham City University's College of Law, Social and Criminal Justice in the United Kingdom,is currently working on projects focused on juror decision-making and expert evidence, lawyers and science literacy, and compassionate release from prison procedures. Her research on challenges that can arise when legal systems and agents interact with science, has been cited widely by scholars, judges, lawyers, and in treatises.
RSVP: Please register here. For media interview requests, contact Maria Peña, mpena@loc.gov. For non-media questions, contact Robert Brammer in the Law Library at rbram@loc.gov.
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Media Contact: María Peña, Library of Congress, mpena@loc.gov
PR 23-098
11/29/2023
ISSN 0731-3527