The WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW is pleased to announce its annual spring symposium. On March 27 and 28, 2006, a collaborative effort among West Virginia University’s College of Law, Forensic Science Initiative, and Biometric Knowledge Center of CITeR will explore the connections between science and law in these emerging disciplines.

Featured Speakers Include:

• Sam Cava—Director of the Biometrics Fusion Department, Department of Defense

• Marcia Ashdown—Prosecuting Attorney, Monongalia County, West Virginia

• Jay T. McCamic—West Virginia’s only federally qualified death penalty expert

• Anjali R. Swienton—SciLaw Forensics

• Duane Blackburn—Office of Science & Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President

• Festival of Ideas Keynote Address—Judge William H. Webster, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Washington, D.C., and Former Director of the CIA and FBI

• Edward G. Donley Memorial Lecture—Professor Steven Goldberg, Georgetown University Law Center

• Featured Topics Include

• The foundation and evolution of forensics and biometrics

• Collaborative efforts among law, forensics and biometrics

• Significance and policy concerns of forensics and biometrics

• Evidentiary concerns from collection to proper uses

• Terrorism and privacy in the 21st Century

College of Law Phone: 304.293.2301 PO Box 6130 Fax: 304.293.6891 Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-6130 Email: wvlrev@mail.wvu.edu