Jennifer Mnookin

Jennifer L. Mnookin is the Dean of UCLA School of Law.[1] She is also the David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law and the founding co-director of UCLA Law's Program on Understanding Law, Science and Evidence (PULSE@UCLA Law).[2] She is an expert on evidence law, and has co-authored books, written articles and published op-eds on the subjects of expert and scientific evidence. On June 4, 2015, Mnookin was named the ninth dean in the history of UCLA School of Law.[3] On April 23, 2020, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4]

Jennifer L. Mnookin
OccupationDean, UCLA School of Law
Years active2015 - Present

UCLA Law faculty, 2005 - Present

University of Virginia School of Law faculty, 1998 - 2005
Academic background
EducationJ.D., Yale Law School

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A.B., Harvard University
Academic work
DisciplineEvidence, Science an Technology

Early life and education

Mnookin was born in 1967 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the daughter of Robert Mnookin, the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School,[5] and Dale Mnookin. She grew up in Berkeley and Palo Alto, California, and attended Harvard College, where she earned her A.B. in 1988 and was an editor for The Harvard Crimson.[6] She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995 and holds a Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[7]

Career

Mnookin joined the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998. In 2002-03 she was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. She joined the faculty of UCLA School of Law in 2005. Mnookin served as Vice Dean for Faculty and Research (2007–09) and as Vice Dean for External Appointments and Intellectual Life (2012–13) before being named dean.

Her 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. She is a co-author of The New Wigmore, A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence,[8] and Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony.[9] Much of her work has focused on the problems of forensic science evidence, especially pattern identification evidence like latent fingerprint identification.[7] She has frequently commented to the press on forensic science and evidence issues[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] and has occasionally consulted or served as an expert witness on the scientific foundation of fingerprint evidence.[18]

Her scholarship on forensic science was cited extensively by the National Academy of Sciences' 2009 report.[19] She is a former member of the National Academy of Science's Committee on Science, Technology and the Law[20] and is on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.[21] She was the primary investigator for a National Institute of Justice project that sought to develop objective metrics for measuring the difficulty of fingerprint comparisons.[22] Her work on the Confrontation Clause was cited and discussed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Williams v. Illinois (2012).[23] In 2016, she co-chaired an advisory group to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which issued a report on the reliability of forensic science used in the courtroom.[24][25]

In her role as a law school administrator, Mnookin is a former member of the steering committee of the Association of American Law Schools' Dean's Forum. Mnookin was named a member of the American Law Institute, a leading organization dedicated to improving and modernizing the law, in 2011.[26]

Personal life

Mnookin is married to Joshua Foa Dienstag,[27] a professor of political science and law at UCLA.[28] They have two children, Sophia and Isaac.[29]

References
  1. "Biography Page". law.ucla.edu. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  2. "About the Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence". www.law.ucla.edu. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  3. Hampton, Phil. "Jennifer Mnookin named new dean of UCLA School of Law". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  4. "New 2020 Members Announced". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. April 23, 2020.
  5. "Robert H. Mnookin". Harvard Law School. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  6. "Congratulations, Crimson Class of '88, And Good Luck". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  7. "Biography Page". law.ucla.edu.
  8. "The New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence - Expert Evidence, Second Edition | Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory". Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  9. Reuters, Thomson. "Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and... | Legal Solutions". legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  10. "The Real CSI". Public Broadcasting System. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  11. Mnookin, Jennifer. "The Achilles' Heel of Fingerprints". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  12. Mnookin, Jennifer. "The 'West Memphis Three' and combating cognitive biases". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  13. Mnookin, Jennifer. "Clueless 'science'". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  14. Russell, Sue. "Bias and the Big Fingerprint Dust-Up". Pacific Standard. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  15. Steinhauer, Jennifer. "'Grim Sleeper' Arrest Fans Debate on DNA Use". The New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  16. Liptak, Adam. "In U.S., Expert Witnesses Are Partisan". The New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  17. Edwards, Harry T.; Mnookin, Jennifer L. (September 20, 2016). "A wake-up call on the junk science infesting our courtrooms". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  18. "United States of America v. Raynard Council" (PDF). Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  19. "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States". The National Academies Press. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  20. PGA. "COMMITTEE MEMBERS". sites.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  21. Center, Electronic Privacy Information. "EPIC - EPIC Advisory Board". epic.org. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  22. Gavel, Lauri. "UCLA professors awarded major federal grant to study error rates in fingerprint evidence". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  23. "Williams v. Illinois". Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  24. "Report to the President: Forensic Science in Criminal Courts" (PDF).
  25. Kisliuk, Bill. "Q&A with Jennifer Mnookin: Raising the bar for scientific evidence in court". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  26. Institute, The American Law. "Members | American Law Institute". American Law Institute. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  27. "WEDDINGS; Jennifer Mnookin, Joshua Dienstag". The New York Times. May 29, 1994. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  28. "Joshua Foa Dienstag". UCLA Department of Political Science. Archived from the original on April 17, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  29. https://www.uclalawreview.org/reflections-on-law-teaching-2/
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