Stetson University, University of Tennessee launch new online course: Locating, Evaluating and Selecting Expert Witnesses
A new online continuing legal education course offered by Stetson University and the University of Tennessee trains lawyers, law enforcement professionals, and forensic science specialists on locating, evaluating and selecting expert witnesses.
Stetson University College of Law’s National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law has partnered with the Law Enforcement Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee’s Institute for Public Service to launch the new online CLE course: Locating, Evaluating and Selecting Expert Witnesses.
“This training is crucial to anyone working with expert witnesses,” said Professor Carol Henderson, course leader and founding director of the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law.
Professor Henderson is an international authority on forensic science and the law and is past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and present co-chair of the Life & Physical Sciences Division of the American Bar Association’s Science & Technology Law Section.
The course, designed to include video and multimedia elements, will focus on factors that influence the selection of an expert, the importance of investigating an expert’s credentials, making informed decisions on expert credibility, legal standards of scientific evidence admissibility, and attorneys’ ethics in dealing with experts.
The course also includes training on the use of the Clearinghouse database at NCSTL.org, visited by more than one million visitors from 170 countries for scientific evidence research. The course has been approved for 3.5 general CLE credits and .5 CLE ethics credits, 3.5 Peace Officer Standards and Training credits (P.O.S.T.) and one American Board of Criminalistics reaccreditation credit.
For more information, contact Stetson’s Office of Professional Education at 727-562-7898.
Post date: Oct. 30, 2015
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