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Jennifer L. Mnookin (born 1967) is the David G. Price & Dallas P. Price professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and the founding co-director of the Program on Understanding Law, Science and Evidence, PULSE@UCLA Law. She is an expert on evidence law with a focus on expert and scientific evidence. In 2014, Jennifer Mnookin received the UCLA School of Law's Rutter Award for excellence in teaching. She was named the incoming Dean of the UCLA School of Law on June 4, 2015.
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- Is some forensic science junk science jennifer mnookin interview with malcolm fleschner
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Early life and education
Mnookin was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the daughter of Robert Mnookin, the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Dale Mnookin. She grew up in Berkeley and Palo Alto, California, and attended Harvard College, where she was an editor for The Harvard Crimson. She received her J.D. from the Yale Law School and also holds a Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Mnookin joined the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998. She was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 2002-03 and she moved from UVA to the UCLA School of Law in 2005. While at UCLA, Mnookin has served both as Vice Dean for Faculty and Research and as Vice Dean for External Appointments and Intellectual Life.
Mnookin’s scholarship focuses on the interconnections between evidence, science and technology, and legal and cultural ideas about proof and persuasion. She has written on topics ranging from the history of photographic evidence to the complexities of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment with respect to expert evidence. Much of her recent work has focused on the problems of forensic science evidence, especially pattern identification evidence like latent fingerprint identification. She has frequently commented to the press on forensic science and evidence issues and has occasionally consulted or served as an expert witness on the scientific foundation of fingerprint evidence.
Her scholarship on forensic science was cited extensively by the National Academy of Sciences' 2009 report, and she has served on several working groups about forensic science, including the NIST/NIJ Expert Working Group on Human Factors in Latent Print Identification. She is the primary investigator for an NIJ-funded grant attempting to develop objective metrics for measuring the difficult of fingerprint comparisons and is a co-author of two treatises on expert and scientific evidence. Her work on the Confrontation Clause was cited and discussed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Williams v. Illinois (2012).
Personal life
Mnookin is married to Joshua Dienstag, a professor of political science at UCLA, and has 2 children.