Albert E. Scherr

Professor of Law
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Vermont Law School

Biography

Updated: Sept. 18, 2007

Articles

The Russian Oral Tradition & Legal Pedagogy, in volume on Russian and American legal pedagogy published in Russian for Russian law schools, 2005.
A Rule-of-Law Project Meets “Arbitrary & Capricious” Obstacles in Vologda, Russia, 44 NH Bar Journal 19-24 (2003) (with C. Frierson).
Overcoming Trial Technophobia, Law Technology News (2000).

Other

Do You Know Where You DNA Is? Genetics, Privacy & The Constitution, University Lecture Series (Stephen F. Austin Univ., Nacogdoches, Tex. Mar. 2006).
The Wisdom of Uncertainty: Lessons from DNA Exonerations, (Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., Feb. 2006).
The Business of Genetics: DNA Labs, Drug Companies & Mission-Oriented Science, (Notre Dame de Namur Univ., Belmont, Cal., Nov. 2005).
Intelligent Design in Public Schools (Moderator & organizer, panel discussion, sponsored by NH ACLU, Concord, N.H., Oct. 2005).
CSI It Ain’t: Forensic DNA Laboratories (Sacred Heart Univ., Fairfield, Conn., Oct. 2005).
Forensic DNA Labs: Mastery or Magic? (Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., Apr. 2005).
Do You Know Where Your DNA Is? (Westminister College, New Wilmington, Pa., Mar. 2005).
Terrorism & Civil Liberties (Moderator, panel discussion, sponsored by Franklin Pierce Law Center, the World Affairs Council & the NH Humanities Council, Nov. 2004).
Experts & Evidence (Moderator of federal & state judges’ panel, NH Trial Lawyers Ass'n, Bedford, N.H., March 2003).
Forensic DNA Evidence: Mastery or Magic? (Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., Feb. 2004).
What’s Your DNA Been Doing? (Univ. of Portland, Portland, Or., Nov. 2003).
The Criminal Mind (interactive panel discussion, New England Crime Bake, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, N.E. Chapter, Wellesley, Mass., Nov. 2003).
Liars & The Lies They Tell (NH Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 2003).
The Anglo-American Institution of Jury Trials (an Int'l. Colloquium, “La Justice Morocaine: Institutions et Fonctions,” Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco, June 2003).
Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Evidence (NH Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 2002).
The American Jury System & Judicial Bias: The Role of Juries, Judges & Lawyers (Vologda State Pedagogical Institute, law department, Vologda, Russ., June 2002).
Jury Selection & Composition in the American Jury System (Vologda State Pedagogical Institute, law department, Vologda, Russ., June 2002).
Genetic Identity: Rhetoric or Reality? (Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., Feb. 2002).
Jury Trials in an Adversarial System (Vologda State Pedagogical Institute, law department, Vologda, Russ., May 2001).
Evidence in an Adversarial System (Vologda State Pedagogical Institute, law department, Vologda, Russ., May 2001).
Scientific Evidence in an Adversarial System (Vologda State Pedagogical Institute, law department, Vologda, Russ., May 2001).
Pedagogy at an American Law School (Vologda State Pedagogical Institute students and faculty, law department, Vologda, Russ., May 2001).
The New Genetics & Probate Courts (Vermont probate judges, Burlington, Vt., Feb. 2001).
Teaching the Teaching of ELSI Issues: A Progress Report (co-presentation at “A Decade of ELSI Research: A Celebration of the First Ten Years of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Program” conference, Washington, D.C., Jan. 2001).
Evidence Workshop (NH Trial Lawyers Ass'n, Bedford, NH (Nov. 2000).
The Senate Impeachment Trial: A Journalist's Survival Kit (Franklin Pierce Law Center the NH Bar Ass'n, 2000).*
Law, Genetics & Public Health (New Eng. Public Health Ass'n, 2000).*
Forensic DNA Analysis & STRs: The New Technology (NH Public Defender Program, 2000).*
Genetic Discrimination: Legal Issues (Neb. State Legislators, 2000).*
Genetics, Schools & The Law (Univ. of Neb., 2000).*

*Copy of presentation is on file with the author.