BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Recent Pan-European advances in harmonising evaluative reporting i n forensic science: scope\, principles and pending challenges - Alex Biede rmann (Université de Lausanne) DTSTART:20160901T123000Z DTEND:20160901T130000Z UID:TALK67154@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:INI IT DESCRIPTION:Co-authors: Christophe Champod (University of Lausanne) \, Sheila Willis (Forensic Science Ireland)

Since decades\ , the question of how to assess and report the value of forensic results preoccupies academics and practitioners in both forensic science and the law across Europe and beyond. In essence\, this topic gravitates around th e issue of what constitutes a logical framework of reasoning\, and how it can be operationalized in the applied context of legal trials. Often\, s tatistics and probabilistic reasoning are promoted as \\emph{the} framewo rk\, yet the overarching topic is larger and is concerned with the reason able reasoning in the face of uncertainty. Unfortunately\, restricted vie ws over the former have limited viable contributions by the latter. To he lp overcome these barriers\, forensic science and legal practitioners acr oss Europe have partnered -- over the past few years -- in the developmen t of mutual understanding on general principles of forensic interpretatio n in terms of a guideline\, delivered as the result of a project in the E NFSI (European Network of Forensic Science Institutes) Monopoly Programme scheme `Strengthening the Evaluation of Forensic Results across Europe&# 39\; (financially supported by the European Commission). Built upon eleme nts of previously published standards (e.g.\, by the Association of Foren sic Science Providers)\, the \\emph{ENFSI Guideline For Evaluative Reporti ng In Forensic Science} also includes an assessment template for forensic expert reports and a roadmap for implementation. This makes it one of th e most cross-disciplinary\, institutionally supported acknowledgments of current understandings of logical inference in the courtroom\, and schola rly research in this area. This talk will focus on presenting the scope a nd major principles of the ENFSI Guideline\, and discuss challenges assoc iated with its wider and more systematic implementation. It will be argue d that the guideline'\;s matured principles make it an inevitable comp onent of future works that seek to promote and facilitate the smoother op erating of logical judicial proces

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